Bilde av Nature Prose Av Dominic (emeritus Professor Of Modern English Literature Emeritus Professor Of Modern English Literature University Of Nottingham) Hea

Nature Prose Av Dominic (emeritus Professor Of Modern English Literature Emeritus Professor Of Modern English Literature University Of Nottingham) Hea

Nature Prose seeks to explain the popularity and appeal of contemporary writing about nature. This book intervenes in key areas of contemporary debate about literature and the environment and explores the enduring appeal of writing about nature during an ecological crisis. Using a range of international examples, with a focus on late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century writing from Britain and the US, Dominic Head argues that nature writing containsformal effects which encapsulate our current ecological dilemma and offer a fresh resource for critical thinking. The environmental crisis has injected a fresh urgency into nature writing, along with a new piquancy for those readers seeking solace in the nonhuman, or for those looking to change their habits in the face of ecological catastrophe. However, behind this apparently strong match between the aims of nature writers and the desires of their readers, there is also a shared mood of radical uncertainty and insecurity. The treatmen

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World Mythology: A Very Short Introduction Av David A. (professor Emeritus Of English And Comparative Literature Professor Emeritus Of English And Com

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A History Of The Vikings Av Gwyn (emeritus Professor Of English Language And Literature Emeritus Professor Of English Language And Literature Universi

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Why Women Read Fiction Av Helen (emeritus Professor Of English Emeritus Professor Of English University Of Exeter) Taylor

Written by a leading academic and broadcaster and drawing on interviews with readers, writers, reading groups, bookshop owners, librarians, and figures from literary publishing, reviewing, and festivals, this accessible volume offers an overview of the...

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