Environmental Imagination
Environmental Imagination 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. With Thoreau's Walden as a…
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Environmental Imagination
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. 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. 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.
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.The green tradition in American writing commands Buell's special attention, particularly environmental nonfiction from colonial
Environmental Imagination
Environmental Imagination
Geopolitical Imagination
Dialectical Imagination
Rethinking Imagination
Magical Imagination
Environmental Ethics
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES
Metabolist Imagination
Mythic Imagination
Environmental Policy