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comparative nature writing scholarship
cultural environmental studies
environmental humanities
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literary biodiversity
nature representation
regional eco-literature
transnational ecology
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- ISBN 9781579580100
- Weight: 1110g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Literature of Nature is a referenc ework that explores the diversity of genres, modes, and orientations of literary representations of nature and of human interaction with the rest of the natural world. Comprising 65 essays, Literature of Nature is organized into five geographic sections: the United States and Canada; Europe; Asia and the Pacific; Africa and the Arab world; and Latin America. A sixth section is devoted to Topics, Genres, Theory, and Other Arts. The diversity and international scope of the essays are represented in a wide variety of chapter formats: contributors were encouraged to adopt layouts most appropriate to their subjects, with a stylistic diversity modeling natural diverstiy. Literature of Nature is meant to appeal to a broad range of users, including students, librarians, and the general reader interested in knowing more about such literature. At the same time scholars of literature will find the volume of great interest and the bibliographies especially useful.
Patrick D. Murphy is a professor of English and teaches in the Graduate Program in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Founding editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, he is currently the Art and the Natural Environment section editor for the journal Organization and Environment. Author of Understanding Gary Snyder and Literature, Nature, and Other: Ecofeminist Critiques, he has edited and co-edited several other books, including, with Greta Gaard, Ecofeminist Literary Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy. He has recently completed a monograph tentatively titled Farther Afield in Literary Ecology (forthcoming 1999) and is co-editing, with Roberto Forns-Broggi, a special issue of the Hispanic Journal on ecology in Latin American literature.
