[PDF.96ml] The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture

The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture

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 | #855280 in Books |  Belknap Press |  1996-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.50 x9.25 x1.25l,1.78 | File type: PDF | 600 pages

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||17 of 45 people found the following review helpful.| its academic|By A Customer|I found this to be an annoying book. The subject matter is intriguing but the author's style is so highfalutin, verbose and academic that little real wisdom is effectively imparted to the reader. This is ironic since his subject is Henry David Thoreau who took great care to write plainly. The best writing in the book is in the notes which serve a|.com |The best writing about nature, literary scholar Lawrence Buell suggests, has at its root an argument that humans are accountable to the environment. In the American literary canon, the work that best demonstrates this thesis is Henry David Thoreau's class

With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural environment. With Thoreau's Walden as a touchstone, Buell gives us a far-reaching account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of wester...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture   |  Lawrence Buell. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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