The issue comprises poems by 74 poets from Great Plains states. Includes one or two poems by each poet accompanied by the poet's commentary.

A classroom-based environmental reader. Models from a variety of writers like Henry David Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, and Rachel Carson. Includes rhetorical strategies for expressive and research writing and paper topic possibilities.

Examines the effects of the "frozen North," including the "monstrous" wendigo and the ongoing appeal of a failed polar expedition, on the Canadian literary tradition.

Collection of writing by over 90 authors about the Northwest, from the earliest white explorers to Raymond Carver.

Uses ideas of John Dewey to find ways to integrate ecological issues into the educational system.

Six essays on sustainability and stewardship.

Examines the way "descriptions of paradise regained are accompanied by commercialism and violence toward the natural world" in works of early New World explorers.

Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction winner.

Author contrasts tribal and ecological conceptions of place with "the no-place of capitalist modernity," with particular examples from D'Arcy McNickle's fiction.

Argues for "a phenomenological approach to environmental ethics," which is defined as "a palpable, embodied responsibility for the mortal suffering of the other."

Excerpts from the work of 25 women writers, from Susan Fenimore Cooper to Rachel Carson. Introduction and further readings provided for each author.

Discusses "the contemporary political problem of competing views of the proper relation between humans and the environment" as a "fundamental dilemma" in "contemporary Western philosophy."

Collection of over one hundred poems from numerous cultures. Poets include Gary Snyder, Gallway Kinnell, Nanao Sakaki, Carolyn Forche, and others. Intro. Terry Tempest Williams.

Poems about the mythical, historical, and policital Jerusalem.

Examines organic and mechanistic metaphors of the human relationship to the world. Includes discussions of deep ecology and ecofeminism.

Memoir about returning to a family farm in the Merrimac Valley of Massachusetts to face contemporary social problems.

Examines, through "critical theory," the effects various "discursive frames" and types of "foundation support" have on the viability of environmental organizations.

Argues for the importance of gender as "an important marker" for the portrayal of nature in scientific writings from 1840 to 1930.

Argues that critics and teachers working toward ecological and societal balance should include "all members of our discourse community in cooperative rather than competitive ways."

Examines "the dominant model" for environmental ethics, based in "mainstream moral philosophy," and suggests as two "alternatives," "ecofeminist 'care' theory," and "Heideggerian phenomenology."

Wide-ranging essays on the cultural construction of nature. Long introduction by Cronon; essays by Robert Harrison, Carolyn Merchant, James Proctor, Richard White, and others; bibliography.

Examines ecological metaphor, Earth as Home, in Carol Bigwood's Earth Muse: Feminism, Nature, and Art and Vera Norwood's Made from This Earth: American Women and Nature.

Three stories concerning gender, nature, and marginalization in bioregional indigenous communities of India; "conversation," preface, and afterword by Spivak.

Examines interconnectedness of people and the land through the author's family history in McDonald, Kansas, a small town of the high plains.

Contrast literary and visual aspects of romantism with the ecosystem perspective in contemporary forest management.

John Burroughs' writings about walking set in the the tradition of the saunterer.

Major compilation of bibliographical essays on American nature writers.

Details Pentagon plan to generate virtual lenses, mirrors, and antennas in the ionosphere by transmitting enormous amounts of energy into the upper atmosphere.

Examines the "ideological roots" of Deep Ecology and other environmental movements, in both Europe and America, arguing against the "dangers of environmental claims" to democracy.

Offers a challenge to "existing Feminist Theory on Identity Politics" by examining "personal, social, and cultural identities from an ecological and feminist standpoint."

Remembrance of a Vermont farm that has been in the author's family for six generations.

Collection of poetry, essays, and short fiction by contemporary Western writers. Entries divided regionally by state.

Author traces the natural and human histories of California by dividing it into "seven geographic/cultural provinces . . . [with] similar appearances, economies, customs, and heritages."

Hundreds of personal letters exchanged between Carson and her dear friend reveal an intimate side of Carson, as well as her work as a writer.

Critiques George's argument against feminist vegetarianism; concludes that feminists have a solid nutritional, environmental, and philosophical basis for choosing ethical vegetarianism.

Gifford considers the pastoral and anti-pastoral traditions, and the social construction of nature in contemporary American and European poetry.

Collection of classic and cutting-edge essays in ecological literary criticism. Introduction defines ecocriticism and traces its history; essays offer a range of ecocritical aproaches. Bibliographies.

A response to Marshall's "The Lorax and the Ecopolice" explores the need for a variety of rhetorical methods to shape social discourse.

Rev. of Gethsemani Poems by J.T. Ledbetter (Vanguard Press, 1994)

Collection of essays.

Explores "how recent eco-theologies address the redemptive core of Christian theology," in order to reconcile the "relationship between the land and humans."

Anthology of 200 works of fiction, poetry, essays, and scholarship about the land and people of the Appalachians. Organized in sixteen thematic sections.

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Discusses representations of violence and the violence (killing) that preceded representation in Catesby, Crevecour, and Audubon's writing and illustrations.

Collection of essays suggest "using dying small towns and rural communities as the foundation for a new kind of ecological economy."

Twenty-eight conversations with such environmentalists and ecologists as Thomas Berry, Matthew Fox, Susan Griffin, Jerry Mander, Starhawk, Dave Foreman, Terry Tempest Williams.

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Argues that contemporary women writing about the land "construct a 'post-modern pastoral'" to "resist or disrupt" the "mostly white, masculinist" traditions in nature writing.

Twenty-eight writers from five nations: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Yuchi. Includes letters, addresses, stories, poems, plays, dialect works, biographical and historical prose.

Examines issues associated with effectively combining emotional, spiritual and scientific approaches to nature in environmental writing. Touches on Chief Seattle's speech, nature fakers and Bambi. Scheduled to appear in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 3.2.

A sampler of two thousand years of European and American nature writing. Brief general introduction and seven section introductions. No biographical or critical headnotes.

Contains 14 essays on significant philosophers and thinkers, including Hobbes, Fourier, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Bloch, Jonas, Mumford, Jonas, Commoner, Ehrlich, Carson, Habermas and Bookchin.

Transcribed stories of a Native American hunting guide.

Explores the role of environmental rhetoric in relationship to the Dr. Suess story The Lorax, with implications for teaching environmental issues.

A third-generation Japanese American organic farmer chronicles a year raising peaches and grapes on his farm in California's San Joaquin Valley.

An examination of Emerson's influence of John Burroughs.

A "qualitative study . . . designed to gather information about significant psychological aspects of individuals' relationship to nature," based on interviews with "nine adult women."

Covers his pre-monastic years, including time in Greenwich Village, Cuba, and teaching at St. Bonaventure University.

Early monastic years at Gethsemani Monastery.

Argues that the way "blind/visually impaired individuals . . . convey their perceptions" of the natural world allows "readers with sight to "see" the world more distinctly."

Critiques literary ecocriticism and nature writing/environmental literature using post-structuralist literary theory, ecofeminist philosophy, and cultural studies; examples from fiction, poetry, and prose.

Ecofeminist critique of animated Disney Company films.

Explores the influence of Jeffers on Synder's views regarding civilization within the context of a Gaian ethic.

A writer's handbook with a focus on nature writing, including suggested reading lists and directory of writing programs featuring nature writing.

Second issue of annual collection of new nature writing. Includes Peter Mathiessen, Susan Brownmiller, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, Rick Bass, Jane Smiley, others.

Thirteen essays written by some of the world's foremost Thoreau scholars. A comprehensive introduction to Thoreau's life and work, friendships and haunts, and reputation and audience.

Collection of 7 essays by art historians on landscape and design in Bay Area painting, photography, architecture, and urban planning from 1870 to 1990.

Collection of critical essays by women written in the mode of narrative scholarship. The three sections, "The Work/Love Paradigm," "The Text as Mirror," and "Teaching and Writing Self," deal with how women scholars relate with various texts.

Argues that texts by the four writers draw on and finally "surpass Walden in depth and substance" regarding "economy," "kinship," "solitude," and "artistic vision."

Account of the growing inclusion of environmental studies in college degree programs; mention of notable courses, colleges, and professors.

Four indices collate volume numbers of four editions of Burroughs's collected works, index chapter titles alphabetically and by volume and keywords, and give the essays' original titles and places of publication.

Quantic considers various myths and their shaping influence on Great Plains literature. Authors discussed include Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Discusses rational, practical applications and innovations for the intoduction of environmental literature in Palestinian universities.

Color photographs with accompanying text. Natural history including the geology, vegetation, and effect of weather of the regions of Kansas.

Places Whitman's work in a cultural context. Although focused on Whitman's life, establishes a context for many writers of the same period.

Essays by Ann Ronald and photographs by John Trimble of Nevada's Great Basin.

Defines and explores "the narrative of retreat" in American nature writing, using works by Henry Thoreau, John Van Dyke, Wendell Berry, and John Muir.

Textbook for college writing course with readings about people's relationships to the natural world; includes discussion questions and writing assignments.

Application of Kenneth Burke's ideas of human communication provides a framework for alternate rhetorical strategy.

Collection of essays by leading psychotherapists, thinkers, and eco-activists, including James Hillman, Chellis Glendinning, Carl Anthony, Ralph Metzner, Joanna Macy, David Abram, and others.

Argues that Chopin uses "landscape as a psychological symbol throughout her canon" as a means to "elucidate both theme and character."

Model for a first-year writing class integrating American nature writing, field experience, and instruction in written communication.

Scholarly critique of "high-tech" revolution.

Account of the creation of this national monument.

Ecofeminist reading of "The Yellow Wallpaper" reveals the similarity between eighteenth-century patriarchal attitudes towards women and gardens.

Twenty-two critical essays on contemporary Native American life and literature.

Outlines six issues as vital to understanding ecofeminism and as preconditions for a deep ecology/feminism debate.

Paperback edition of collection of 29 essays written over the past 40 years, with thirteen recent essays.

Long poem, begun in the 1950's.

Nine critical essays about the social construction of nature. Includes Paul Shepard, Albert Borgmann, N. Katherine Hayles, Donald Worster, Gary Paul Nabhan, Stephen R. Kellert.

Draws on five recent popular anthologies of nature writing to establish characteristics of the tradition. From them, proposes four principles of nature writing.

Fuses Guattari and Negri's political concept of collective subjectivity with postmodern ecology and calls for expanding notions of subjectivity and community.

An ecofeminist dialogical reading of "The Inhumanist" reveals depth in Jeffers's holistic approach to nature, and shows the extent to which masculinist behavior must change.

International scholars examine the proliferation of contemporary movements of ecological resistance around the world.

Personal anecdotes from an educator in environmental education and strategies for increasing environmental awareness in students and other citizens.

Nineteen essays examining landscape as history, art, myth, and memory. Includes work by John B. Jackson, William Kittredge, Leslie Marmon Silko, and John R. Stilgoe.

Argues for "a biocentric outlook on nature" in narratives of hunting and fishing, corresponding to "the changes occurring in American perceptions of nature."

Collection of writings from twenty contemporary American nature writers. Introduction and biographical sketches by Stephen Trimble.

Anthology of new writings by 12 prominent Northwest writers, including William Stafford, Sam Hamill and Tom Robbins.

Studies the role of "the impulses and images of Appalachian religion and also broader orthodox Christian beliefs" in the works of Fred Chappell.

Examines "an alternative way of viewing our relationship as human beings to the natural environment" by way of "the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead."

Uses hermeneutics, narrative theory, and critical theory to explore "deep" issues underlying perception and the use of forests.

Textbook of expository writing on contemporary controversies representing a wide range of opinions by scientists, policy makers, activists, journalists, and philosophers; includes questions and writing activities. Glossary and bibliography.

Author argues that a literary creationism derived from Puritanism and an evolutionism derived from nineteenth-century science have fundamentally shaped American nature writing.

Collected essays previously published in Wilderness which argue for the preservation of wild country.

Logging and ecoterrrorism in the Maine woods.

Review of Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris

Includes letters written by Van Dyke during his desert travels.

Author argues that Van Dyke, Austin, and Abbey's portrayals of the Southwest emphasize elegy, estheticism, and escape rather than accurate natural history.

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