Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in both autobiography and environmental literature. In Refiguring the Map of Sorrow, Mark Allister brings these two genres together by examining a distinct form of grief narrative, in which the writers deal with mourning by standing explicitly both outside and inside the text: outside in writing about the natural world; inside in making that exposition part of the grieving process.
Building on Peter Fritzell's thesis in Nature Writing and America that the best American nature writing blends Aristotelian natural history and...
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in both autobiography and environmental literature. In Refiguring the Map of Sorrow, Mark Al...
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in both autobiography and environmental literature. In Refiguring the Map of Sorrow, Mark Allister brings these two genres together by examining a distinct form of grief narrative, in which the writers deal with mourning by standing explicitly both outside and inside the text: outside in writing about the natural world; inside in making that exposition part of the grieving process.
Building on Peter Fritzell's thesis in Nature Writing and America that the best American nature writing blends Aristotelian natural history and...
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in both autobiography and environmental literature. In Refiguring the Map of Sorrow, Mark Al...
The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth and history grows in part from the male's reverent fascination with the wilderness and his equally strong impulse to dominate it. Many canonical literary works--think of Thoreau, Melville, Hemingway, Faulkner--look to the wild as the site for establishing a man's selfhood. But nature is just as often subjected to his most violent displays of mastery.
This tension lies at the heart of Eco-Man, which brings together two rapidly growing fields: men's studies and ecocriticism. The two disciplines have rarely if ever touched on...
The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth and history grows in part from the male's reverent fascination with the wilderness and his equal...
The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth and history grows in part from the male's reverent fascination with the wilderness and his equally strong impulse to dominate it. Many canonical literary works--think of Thoreau, Melville, Hemingway, Faulkner--look to the wild as the site for establishing a man's selfhood. But nature is just as often subjected to his most violent displays of mastery.
This tension lies at the heart of Eco-Man, which brings together two rapidly growing fields: men's studies and ecocriticism. The two disciplines have rarely if ever touched on...
The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth and history grows in part from the male's reverent fascination with the wilderness and his equal...