| Thoreaus Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing Contributor(s): Schneider, Richard J. (Editor), Buell, Lawrence (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0877457204 ISBN-13: 9780877457206 Publisher: University of Iowa Press OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2000 Annotation: Recent Thoreau studies have shifted to an emphasis on the "green" Thoreau, on Thoreau the environmentalist, rooted firmly in particular places and interacting with particular objects. In the wake of Buell's Environmental Imagination, the nineteen essayists in this challenging volume address the central questions in Thoreau studies today: how "green", how immersed in a sense of place, was Thoreau really, and how has this sense of place affected the tradition of nature writing in America? The contributors to this stimulating collection address the ways in which Thoreau and his successors attempt to cope with the basic epistemological split between perceiver and place inherent in writing about nature; related discussions involve the kinds of discourse most effective for writing about place. They focus on the impact on Thoreau and his successors of culturally constructed assumptions deriving from science, politics, race, gender, history, and literary conventions. Finally, they explore the implications surrounding a writer's appropriation or even exploitation of places and objects. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Nature | Essays |
| Dewey: 818.309 |
| LCCN: 99058112 |
| Series: American Land and Life |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.83" W x 9.26" (0.99 lbs) 324 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
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| Publisher Description: The contributors to this work address how the environmentalist Henry David Thoreau and his successors attempted to cope with the epistemological split between the perceiver and place inherent in writing about nature. They discuss the kinds of discourse most effective for writing about place. |