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Reconnecting with John Muir essays in post-pastoral practice /

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Main Author: Gifford, Terry
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006.
Subjects:
Muir, John, > 1838-1914 > Appreciation > United States.
Muir, John, > 1838-1914 > Influence.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Nature in literature.
Environmentalism > United States > History > 20th century.
Pastoral literature, American > History and criticism.
Mountaineering in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Keeping faith with the source
  • Muir as practitioner of the post-pastoral
  • Muir's multiple discourses
  • Teaching environmentalism through writing
  • Muir's mode of reading John Ruskin
  • Rick Bass's fiber as a post-pastoral georgic
  • Walking into narrative scholarship
  • Teaching post-pastoral poetry of landscape
  • Tests of character in Cold Mountain
  • Muir's fourfold concept of the mountaineer
  • Toward a post-pastoral mountaineering literature
  • Post-pastoral practice at the crossroads of ecocriticism.

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