Cover Image

Nature prose : writing in ecological crisis /

Show other versions (1)

"This book seeks to explain the popularity and appeal of contemporary writing about nature. The argument is that nature writing, in its various formats, contains formal effects of a complexity that is not sufficiently recognized, and that these paradoxical or antithetical effects encapsulate ou...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Head, Dominic (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Nature in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Nature dans la littérature.
Fairy Tales.
Environmental Policy.
Public Policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Ecology in literature
Nature in literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The critique of nature writing
  • Nature, culture, and indigenous knowledge
  • Immersion in the nonhuman
  • Fiction, nonfiction, and ecomimesis
  • Remoteness.
  • The question of solitude
  • The Gavin Maxwell myth
  • Maxwell's followers
  • Neil Ansell: the Hebrides and remoteness
  • Exclusivity.
  • Nature writing and privilege
  • Reclaiming the tropes of nature writing
  • Indigenous lore
  • Remembering the dead
  • Abundance.
  • Flight behaviour: abundance and climate change
  • Parables and parable effects
  • Abundance and the emergence of environmental consciousness
  • Cultural memory
  • The expressive abundance of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
  • The opacity of the parable effect
  • Tim Dee's starlings
  • Rarity.
  • The shadow of extinction
  • Naming and collecting
  • Quest narratives
  • Rethinking rarity
  • Conclusion: transformations.
  • Self-conscious rewilding
  • Wolves and people
  • Intimations of (im)mortality
  • Coda.