Reconnecting with John Muir [electronic resource] : essays in post-pastoral practice / Terry Gifford.
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TextPublication details: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006.Description: 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
- Ecocriticism
- 810.9/36 22
- PS228.N39 G54 2006
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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