Reconnecting with John Muir [electronic resource] : essays in post-pastoral practice / Terry Gifford.

By: Gifford, TerryContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006Description: x, 201 pSubject(s): Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Appreciation -- United States | Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Influence | American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Nature in literature | Environmentalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Pastoral literature, American -- History and criticism | Mountaineering in literature | EcocriticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/36 LOC classification: PS228.N39 | G54 2006Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Keeping faith with the source -- Muir as practitioner of the post-pastoral -- Muir's multiple discourses -- Teaching environmentalism through writing -- Muir's mode of reading John Ruskin -- Rick Bass's fiber as a post-pastoral georgic -- Walking into narrative scholarship -- Teaching post-pastoral poetry of landscape -- Tests of character in Cold Mountain -- Muir's fourfold concept of the mountaineer -- Toward a post-pastoral mountaineering literature -- Post-pastoral practice at the crossroads of ecocriticism.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194) and index.

Keeping faith with the source -- Muir as practitioner of the post-pastoral -- Muir's multiple discourses -- Teaching environmentalism through writing -- Muir's mode of reading John Ruskin -- Rick Bass's fiber as a post-pastoral georgic -- Walking into narrative scholarship -- Teaching post-pastoral poetry of landscape -- Tests of character in Cold Mountain -- Muir's fourfold concept of the mountaineer -- Toward a post-pastoral mountaineering literature -- Post-pastoral practice at the crossroads of ecocriticism.

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