The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American CultureHarvard University Press, 1995 - 586 עמודים With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural environment. With Thoreau's Walden as a touchstone, Buell gives us a far-reaching account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of attempting to imagine a more "ecocentric" way of being. In doing so, he provides a major new understanding of Thoreau's achievement and, at the same time, a profound rethinking of our literary and cultural reflections on nature. |
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Historical and Theoretical Contexts | 29 |
New World Dreams and Environmental Actualities | 53 |
Representing the Environment | 83 |
Waldens Environmental Projects | 115 |
Forms of Literary Ecocentrism | 141 |
Natures Personhood | 180 |
Realizing the Seasons | 219 |
Place | 252 |
Environmental Apocalypticism | 280 |
Environmental Sainthood | 309 |
The Canonization and Recanonization of the Green Thoreau | 339 |
Reading Walden for the Author | 370 |
Environmental Nonfiction | 397 |