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Peak Experiences - Walking Meditations On Literature, Nature, And Need

by Ian Marshall

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 <DIV>Nature’s ability to satisfy deep human needs is familiar to anyone who has hiked up a mountain, canoed a river, or hung a bird feeder outside the kitchen window. In Story Line, his groundbreaking work of narrative ecocriticism, Ian Marshall explores how natural surroundings inspired works of literature set along the Appalachian Trail. In his new work, Peak Experiences, Marshall sets out on a far more personal and at the same time far-reaching journey, to discover how our modern estrangement from the natural world has affected our mental well-being. Taking as his starting point the psychologist Abraham Maslow’s "hierarchy of human needs"—a pyramid familiar to anyone who ever cracked a textbook for Psych 101—Marshall asks how his own experience of deep satisfaction in nature may or may not fit Maslow’s theory. In chapters focused on the needs identified by Maslow, Marshall finds evidence for the healing power of nature in literature and in his own experiences in the wild."I offer myself as test subject," Marshall writes: "recently divorced, a father sharing custody of two children, someone with a high regard for the written word,... a little too stressed-out these days, no more self-actualized than the next person but just as curious about it—and what I have going for me are a lot of well-read books, a good pair of broken-in hiking boots, and a thing for mountains."Embracing the exciting new field of ecopsychology, Marshall leads us on a personal and intellectual odyssey, from the dream mountain of Henry David Thoreau to the high slopes of John Muir’s beloved Mount Shasta. Always, Marshall returns to his own challenges as father and reader, and to his own humble but rewarding mountain, Bald Eagle Ridge, in the Pennsylvania countryside outside his back door.Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism</DIV>
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Water Logics - Materialist Epistemologies For The Environmental Humanities

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 Investigating the material imprint of water on thought itselfWater Logics examines the epistemological adjustments that take place when we make water the source and medium for thinking about the world. Eschewing metaphorical readings of rivers, seas, and oceans, it brings together leading voices from across the social sciences and the humanities to argue rather for a distinct focus on materiality, engaging posthumanism, biotheory, and other cutting-edge theoretical approaches.From the Caribbean Sea to the Indian Ocean, this rich collection is inhabited by migrants, port cities, and coral reefs. It explores the fruitful potential of water for literary, anthropological, and ethical studies, bringing both cohesive transdisciplinarity and fresh comparative perspectives to hydro-criticism. Taken together, the wide range of critical interpretative practices constitutes a signal contribution to the blue humanities.
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Uncommon Sense - Jeremy Bentham, Queer Aesthetics, And The Politics Of Taste

by Carrie D. Shanafelt

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 At odds with the common image of Jeremy Bentham as a dehumanizing calculator or an eccentric projector, this innovative study shows Bentham at his most intimate, outraged by injustice and desperate for the end of sanctioned, discriminatory violence.
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Magnificent Decay - Melville And Ecology

by Tom Nurmi

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 Set against the backdrop of Herman Melville's literary, philosophical, and scientific influences, Magnificent Decay focuses on four of his most neglected works to demonstrate that, together, literature and science offer collective insights into the past, present, and future turbulence of the Anthropocene.
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Of Land, Bones, And Money - Toward A South African Ecopoetics

by Emily Mcgiffin

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 The oral poets of the amaXhosa people have long shaped understandings of history and offered a forum for grappling with change. This book examines the role of these poets in South African society and the ways in which they have helped inform responses to apartheid, the injustices of extractive capitalism, and contemporary politics in South Africa.
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Toxic Matters - Narrating Italy'S Dioxin

by Monica Seger

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 Explores the interplay between bodies, soil, industrial emissions, and the wealth of dynamic particulate matter that passes in between. At the same time, the book emphasizes the crucial function of narrative expression for making sense of this modern-day reality and for shifting existing power dynamics as exposed communities exercise their voices.
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Toxic Matters - Narrating Italy''S Dioxin

by Monica Seger

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 Explores the interplay between bodies, soil, industrial emissions, and the wealth of dynamic particulate matter that passes in between. At the same time, the book emphasizes the crucial function of narrative expression for making sense of this modern-day reality and for shifting existing power dynamics as exposed communities exercise their voices.
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Uncommon Sense - Jeremy Bentham, Queer Aesthetics, And The Politics Of Taste

by Carrie D. Shanafelt

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 At odds with the common image of Jeremy Bentham as a dehumanizing calculator or an eccentric projector, this innovative study shows Bentham at his most intimate, outraged by injustice and desperate for the end of sanctioned, discriminatory violence.
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Of Land, Bones, And Money - Toward A South African Ecopoetics

by Emily Mcgiffin

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 The oral poets of the amaXhosa people have long shaped understandings of history and offered a forum for grappling with change. This book examines the role of these poets in South African society and the ways in which they have helped inform responses to apartheid, the injustices of extractive capitalism, and contemporary politics in South Africa.
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Novel Cultivations - Plants In British Literature Of The Global Nineteenth Century

by Elizabeth Hope Chang

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 Situated in a mid-Victorian moment of frenetic plant collecting from the far reaches of the British empire, Novel Cultivations recognises plants as vital and sentient subjects that serve - often more so than people - as actors and narrative engines in the nineteenth-century novel.
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Evergreen Ash - Ecology And Catastrophe In Old Norse Myth And Literature

by Christopher Abram

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 Most of the Old Norse texts that preserve the myths of Ragnarok originated in Iceland. As the first full-length ecocritical study of Old Norse myth and literature, Evergreen Ash argues that Ragnarok is primarily a story of ecological collapse that reflects the anxieties of early Icelanders who were trying to make a home in a hostile environment.
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Italy And The Environmental Humanities - Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies

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 Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy - as a territory of both matter and imagination - through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches to move past clichÃ© and reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place.
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Recomposing Ecopoetics - North American Poetry Of The Self-Conscious Anthropocene

by Lynn Keller

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 Analyses work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets, all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and language adequate to complex environmental problems. These poets respond to environments transformed by people and take â€œnatureâ€ to be a far more inclusive and culturally imbricated category than conventional nature poetry does.
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William Wordsworth And The Ecology Of Authorship - The Roots Of Environmentalism In Nineteenth-Century Culture

by Scott Hess

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 Hess explores Wordsworth's defining role in establishing what he designates as `the ecology of authorship': a primarily middle-class, nineteenth-century conception of nature associated with aesthetics, high culture, individualism, and nation. Instead of viewing Wordsworth as an early ecologist, Hess places him within a context that is largely cultural and aesthetic.
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Refiguring The Map Of Sorrow - Nature Writing And Autobiography

by Mark Allister

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 This study brings together the genres of autobiography and environmental literature. It examines a form of grief narrative in which writers deal with mourning by standing outside the text in writing about the natural world, and inside it in making that exposition part of the grieving process.
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Irish Ecomedia - Empire And Environmental Justice In The Modernization Of Postcolonial Ireland

by Katherine M. Huber

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Irish Ecomedia - Empire And Environmental Justice In The Modernization Of Postcolonial Ireland

by Katherine M. Huber

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Peak Experiences - Walking Meditations On Literature, Nature, And Need

by Ian Marshall

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Water Logics - Materialist Epistemologies For The Environmental Humanities

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Water Logics - Materialist Epistemologies For The Environmental Humanities

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The Ecological Plot - How Stories Gave Rise To A Science

by John Macneill Miller

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 Traces the roots of this branch of science back to an unexpected source: narrative storytelling. John MacNeill Miller shows how pioneering thinkers drew on a shared set of literary techniques to imagine how different species could work together as a single, interdependent community, redefining the way we conceptualize the natural world.
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The Ecological Plot - How Stories Gave Rise To A Science

by John Macneill Miller

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 Traces the roots of this branch of science back to an unexpected source: narrative storytelling. John MacNeill Miller shows how pioneering thinkers drew on a shared set of literary techniques to imagine how different species could work together as a single, interdependent community, redefining the way we conceptualize the natural world.
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The Ecological Plot - How Stories Gave Rise To A Science

by John Macneill Miller

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 Traces the roots of this branch of science back to an unexpected source: narrative storytelling. John MacNeill Miller shows how pioneering thinkers drew on a shared set of literary techniques to imagine how different species could work together as a single, interdependent community, redefining the way we conceptualize the natural world.
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Thoreau'S Botany - Thinking And Writing With Plants

by James Perrin Warren

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 Bringing together critical plant studies, ecocriticism, and environmental humanities, James Perrin Warren argues that Thoreauâ€™s botanical excursions establish a meeting ground of science and the humanities that is only now ready to be recognized by readers of American literature and environmental literature.
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