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Scholarship of literature and the environment demonstrates myriad
understandings of nature and culture. While some work in the field
results in approaches that belong in the realm of cultural studies,
other scholars have expanded the boundaries of ecocriticism to
connect the practice more explicitly to disciplines such as the
biological sciences, human geography, or philosophy. Even so, the
field of ecocriticism has yet to clearly articulate its
interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary nature. In Toward a
Literary Ecology: Places and Spaces in American Literature, editors
Karen E. Waldron and Robert Friedman have assembled a collection of
essays that study the interconnections between literature and the
environment to theorize literary ecology. The disciplinary
perspectives in these essays allow readers to comprehend places and
environments and to represent, express, or strive for that
comprehension through literature. Contributors to this volume
explore the works of several authors, including Gary Snyder, Karen
Tei Yamashita, Rachel Carson, Terry Tempest Williams, Chip Ward,
and Mary Oliver. Other essays discuss such topics as urban fiction
as a model of literary ecology, the geographies of belonging in the
work of Native American poets, and the literary ecology of place in
"new" nature writing. Investigating texts for the complex
interconnections they represent, Toward a Literary Ecology suggests
what such texts might teach us about the interconnections of our
own world. This volume also offers a means of analyzing
representations of people in places within the realm of an
historical, cultural, and geographically bounded yet diverse
American literature. Intended for students of literature and
ecology, this collection will also appeal to scholars of geography,
cultural studies, philosophy, biology, history, anthropology, and
other related disciplines.
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