| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Ecocritical explorations in literary and cultural studies :/ Patrick D. Murphy. |
| Reminder of title: |
fences, boundaries, and fields / |
| Author: |
Murphy, Patrick D., |
| Published: |
Lanham :Lexington Books, : c2009., |
| Description: |
xi, 217 p. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
The four elements and the recovery of referentiality in ecocriticism -- The complexity of simplicity -- Difference and responsibility in literary alternatives to the nation-state -- Paradise or a pair of dice : contradictions and contingencies in real and virtual terrains for tomorrow's college students -- Toward transnational ecocritical theory : the example of Hwa Yol Jung -- Nature in the contemporary American novel -- The non-alibi of alien scapes : science fiction and ecocriticism -- The non-alibi of pragmatic utopianism and wild variability, or, Optimistic variations on a science fiction theme -- Mysteries of nature and environmental justice -- Nature-nurturing fathers in a world beyond our control -- Scenarios of disaster : crying wolf, scaring away the elephants, and heading 'em off at the pass -- Hurricanes and hubris : American responses in literature and culture to natural weather extremes and their human-driven intensifications -- Randing widely in the classroom. |
| Subject: |
American literature - History and criticism. - |
| ISBN: |
9780739131732 (cloth : alk. paper) : |