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Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and
planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas
occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic
effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional
literary criticism and to use it as a way to read, write,
understand, and teach literature.
The twenty-four original essays here are written by an outstanding
selection of international scholars. The range of bioregions
covered is global and includes such diverse places as British
Columbia's Meldrum Creek and Italy's Po River Valley, the Arctic
and the Outback. There are even forays into cyberspace and outer
space. In their comprehensive introduction, the editors map the
terrain of the bioregional movement, including its history and
potential to inspire and invigorate place-based and environmental
literary criticism.
Responding to bioregional tenets, this volume is divided into four
sections. The essays in the "Reinhabiting" section narrate
experiments in living-in-place and restoring damaged environments.
The "Rereading" essays practice bioregional literary criticism,
both by examining texts with strong ties to bioregional paradigms
and by opening other, less-obvious texts to bioregional analysis.
In "Reimagining," the essays push bioregionalism to evolve--by
expanding its corpus of texts, coupling its perspectives with other
approaches, or challenging its core constructs. Essays in the
"Renewal" section address bioregional pedagogy, beginning with
local habitat studies and concluding with musings about the
Internet.
In response to the environmental crisis, we must reimagine our
relationship to the places we inhabit. This volume shows how
literature and literary studies are fundamental tools to such a
reimagining.
Making Miracles in Medieval England will appeal to all those
interested in religious practices in medieval England, medieval
English culture, and medieval perceptions of miracles.
Haiku, Other Arts, and Literary Disciplines investigates the
genesis and development of haiku in Japan and determines the
relationships of haiku with other arts, such as essay, painting,
and music, as well as the backgrounds of haiku, such as literary
movements, philosophies, and religions that underlie haiku
composition. By analyzing the poets who played major roles in the
development of haiku and its related geners, these essays
illustrate how Japanese haiku poets, and American writers such as
Emerson and Whitman, were inspired by nature, especially its
beautiful scenes and seasonal changes. Western poets had a
demonstrated affinity for Japanese haiku, which bled over into
other art mediums, as these chapters discuss.
Outback and Out West examines the ecological consequences of a
settler-colonial imaginary by comparing expressions of settler
colonialism in the literature of the American West and Australian
Outback. Tom Lynch traces exogenous domination in both regions,
which resulted in many similar means of settlement, including
pastoralism, homestead acts, afforestation efforts, and bioregional
efforts at "belonging." Lynch pairs the two nations' texts to show
how an analysis at the intersection of ecocriticism and settler
colonialism requires a new canon that is responsive to the social,
cultural, and ecological difficulties created by settlement in the
West and Outback. Outback and Out West draws out the regional
Anthropocene dimensions of settler colonialism, considering such
pressing environmental problems as habitat loss, groundwater
depletion, and mass extinctions. Lynch studies the implications of
our settlement heritage on history, art, and the environment
through the cross-national comparison of spaces. He asserts that
bringing an ecocritical awareness to settler-colonial theory is
essential for reconciliation with dispossessed Indigenous
populations as well as reparations for ecological damages as we
work to decolonize engagement with and literature about these
places.
Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and
planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas
occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic
effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional
literary criticism and to use it as a way to read, write,
understand, and teach literature.
The twenty-four original essays here are written by an outstanding
selection of international scholars. The range of bioregions
covered is global and includes such diverse places as British
Columbia's Meldrum Creek and Italy's Po River Valley, the Arctic
and the Outback. There are even forays into cyberspace and outer
space. In their comprehensive introduction, the editors map the
terrain of the bioregional movement, including its history and
potential to inspire and invigorate place-based and environmental
literary criticism.
Responding to bioregional tenets, this volume is divided into four
sections. The essays in the "Reinhabiting" section narrate
experiments in living-in-place and restoring damaged environments.
The "Rereading" essays practice bioregional literary criticism,
both by examining texts with strong ties to bioregional paradigms
and by opening other, less-obvious texts to bioregional analysis.
In "Reimagining," the essays push bioregionalism to evolve--by
expanding its corpus of texts, coupling its perspectives with other
approaches, or challenging its core constructs. Essays in the
"Renewal" section address bioregional pedagogy, beginning with
local habitat studies and concluding with musings about the
Internet.
In response to the environmental crisis, we must reimagine our
relationship to the places we inhabit. This volume shows how
literature and literary studies are fundamental tools to such a
reimagining.
The arid American Southwest is host to numerous organisms described
as desert-loving, or xerophilous. Extending this term to include
the regions writers and the works that mirror their love of desert
places, Tom Lynch presents the first systematically ecocritical
study of its multicultural literature. By revaluing nature and by
shifting literary analysis from an anthropocentric focus to an
ecocentric one, ""Xerophilia"" demonstrates how a bioregional
orientation opens new ways of thinking about the relationship
between literature and place. Applying such diverse approaches as
environmental justice theory, phenomenology, border studies,
ethnography, entomology, conservation biology, environmental
history, and ecoaesthetics, Lynch demonstrates how a rooted
literature can be symbiotic with the world that enables and
sustains it. Analyzing works in a variety of genres by writers such
as Leslie Marmon Silko, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, Ray
Gonzales, Charles Bowden, Susan Tweit, Gary Paul Nabhan, Pat Mora,
Ann Zwinger, and Janice Emily Bowers, this study reveals how
southwestern writers, in their powerful role as community
storytellers, contribute to a sustainable bioregional culture that
persuades inhabitants to live imaginatively, intellectually, and
morally in the arid bioregions of the American Southwest.
'[W]hether I notice or not, the landscape suffuses my body.
Intermingled scents enter my lungs with each breath: dust, rock,
juniper, turpentine bush, mountain mahogany, the heady mix of
volatile oils of the creosote bush, and the ever-so-subtle odor of
blue sky. Though less often articulated, all of my senses, not just
vision, are engaged; the phenomena of this world circulate through
me, and I through them. The landscape caresses as I pass
through...On my feet again, I hobble from stiffness, throw my pack
on, and, leaning on my sotol stalk for balance, begin to pick my
way zigzag down the long rocky slope. I am in love with this
landscape. I am, indeed, a devoted xerophile' - from the
introduction.
This lively book sweeps across dramatic and varied terrains -
volcanoes and glaciers, billabongs and canyons, prairies and rain
forests - to explore how humans have made sense of our planet's
marvelous landscapes. In a rich weave of scientific, cultural, and
personal stories, "The Face of the Earth" examines mirages and
satellite images, swamp-dwelling heroes and Tibetan nomads, cave
paintings and popular movies, investigating how we live with the
great shaping forces of nature - from fire to changing climates and
the intricacies of adaptation. The book illuminates subjects as
diverse as the literary life of hollow Earth theories, the links
between the Little Ice Age and Frankenstein's monster, and the
spiritual allure of deserts and their scarce waters. Including
vivid, on-the-spot accounts by scientists and writers in Saudi
Arabia, Australia, Alaska, England, the Rocky Mountains,
Antarctica, and elsewhere, "The Face of the Earth" charts the depth
and complexity of our interdependence with the natural world.
In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental
threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal
narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation
about "thinking continental"-connecting local and personal
landscapes to universal systems and processes-to articulate the
concept of a global or planetary citizenship. Reckoning with the
larger matrix of biome, region, continent, hemisphere, ocean, and
planet has become necessary as environmental challenges require the
insights not only of scientists but also of poets, humanists, and
social scientists. Thinking Continental braids together abstract
approaches with strands of more-personal narrative and poetry,
showing how our imaginations can encompass the planetary while also
being true to our own concrete life experiences in the here and
now.
Loren Eiseley (1907-77) is one of the most important American
nature writers of the twentieth century and an admired practitioner
of creative nonfiction. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Eiseley was
a professor of anthropology and a prolific writer and poet who
worked to bring an understanding of science to the general public,
incorporating religion, philosophy, and science into his
explorations of the human mind and the passage of time. As a writer
who bridged the sciences and the humanities, Eiseley is a challenge
for scholars locked into rigid disciplinary boundaries. Artifacts
and Illuminations, the first full-length collection of critical
essays on the writing of Eiseley, situates his work in the genres
of creative nonfiction and nature writing. The contributing
scholars apply a variety of critical approaches, including
ecocriticism and place-oriented studies ranging across prairie,
urban, and international contexts. Contributors explore such
diverse topics as Eiseley's use of anthropomorphism and Jungian
concepts and examine how his work was informed by synecdoche. Long
overdue, this collection demonstrates Eiseley's continuing
relevance as both a skilled literary craftsman and a profound
thinker about the human place in the natural world.
This lively book sweeps across dramatic and varied terrains -
volcanoes and glaciers, billabongs and canyons, prairies and rain
forests - to explore how humans have made sense of our planet's
marvelous landscapes. In a rich weave of scientific, cultural, and
personal stories, "The Face of the Earth" examines mirages and
satellite images, swamp-dwelling heroes and Tibetan nomads, cave
paintings and popular movies, investigating how we live with the
great shaping forces of nature - from fire to changing climates and
the intricacies of adaptation. The book illuminates subjects as
diverse as the literary life of hollow Earth theories, the links
between the Little Ice Age and Frankenstein's monster, and the
spiritual allure of deserts and their scarce waters. Including
vivid, on-the-spot accounts by scientists and writers in Saudi
Arabia, Australia, Alaska, England, the Rocky Mountains,
Antarctica, and elsewhere, "The Face of the Earth" charts the depth
and complexity of our interdependence with the natural world.
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