Walking in the land of many gods : remembering sacred reason in contemporary environmental literature / A. James Wohlpart.
Material type: TextPublication details: Athens ; London : The University of Georgia Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9780820345871
- 0820345873
- 1299464211
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- American literature -- History and criticism
- Environmental literature -- History and criticism
- Ecocriticism
- Nature in literature in literature
- Human ecology in literature
- Ecology in literature
- Écocritique
- Écologie humaine dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection
- American literature
- Ecocriticism
- Ecology in literature
- Environmental literature
- Human ecology in literature
- Nature in literature
- Lyrik
- Natur
- Ecocriticism
- USA
- 810.9/355 23
- PS169.E25 .W64 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: A mind of sky and thunder and sun -- Remembering deep space and deep time: Heidegger, the pleistocene, and Native American philosophy -- Restor(y)ing the self: ecological restoration in Janisse Ray's Ecology of a cracker childhood -- The long migration home: listening to birds in Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place -- Healing the severed trust: Linda Hogan's dwellings: a spiritual history of the living world as native ceremony -- Walking in the land of many gods: remembering the mysterious plenitude of Earth.
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How are we placed on Earth? What is our relationship to the world around us, and how Walking in the Land of Many Gods envisions a new way of thinking about the world, one grounded in a moral imagination reconnected to Earth. Insightful readings of three contemporary classics of nature writing-Janisse Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, and Linda Hogan's Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World -are at the heart of Wohlpart's endeavor. Powerful and affecting works like these reveal a pathway to a deeper rem.
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