Toward a literary ecology : places and spaces in American literature / edited by Karen E. Waldron and Rob Friedman.

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Introduction : toward a literary ecology through American literary realism and naturalism / Karen E. Waldron -- Part I: Ecological identities -- 1. The potential and limitations of interactivity in Gary Snyder's Urban literary ecology / Jill Gatlin -- 2. Geographies of belonging in the work of Native American poets : Simon J. Ortiz, Sherman Alexie, and Kimberly Blaeser / Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez -- 3. Urban ecology in Gary Snyder's "Three worlds, three realms, six roads" and "Night song of the Los Angeles basin" / Josh A. Weinstein -- Part II: Ecological cityscapes -- 4. Semiotic mapping in urban fiction as a model of literary ecology : Walter Mosley's Always outnumbered, always outgunned / Eoin Cannon -- 5. Literary ecology and the city : re-placing Los Angeles in Karen Tei Yamashita's The tropic of orange / Jessica Maucione -- Part III: Ecological rhetoric -- 6. Apocalyptic? No, Georgic! : literary agroecology from Virgil to Silent Spring / Laura Sayre -- 7. Toxic testimony in Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge and Chip Ward's Canaries on the rim / Ella Soper -- 8. Exploring literary ecology of place in "new" nature writing / Debarati Bandyopadhyay -- 9. Metaphors of measurement : indirection and the sublime / Rob Friedman.

In this book, editors Karen E. Waldron and Robert Friedman have assembled a collection of essays that study the interconnections between literature and the environment to theorize literary ecology. The disciplinary perspectives in these essays allow readers to comprehend places and environments and to represent, express, or strive for that comprehension through literature. Contributors to this volume explore the works of several authors, including Gary Snyder, Karen Tei Yamashita, Rachel Carson, Terry Tempest Williams, Chip Ward, and Mary Oliver. Other essays discuss such topics as urban fiction as a model of literary ecology, the geographies of belonging in the work of Native American poets, and the literary ecology of place in "new nature" writing. -- Provided by publisher.

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