Imagining Wild America

Imagining Wild America
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9780472021925
ISBN-13 : 0472021923
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Book Synopsis Imagining Wild America by : John R. Knott

Download or read book Imagining Wild America written by John R. Knott and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-04-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the idea of wilderness is being challenged by both politicians and intellectuals, Imagining Wild America examines writing about wilderness and wildness and makes a case for its continuing value. The book focuses on works by John James Audubon, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, and Mary Oliver, as each writer illustrates different stages and dimensions of the American fascination with wild nature. John Knott traces the emergence of a visionary tradition that embraces values consciously understood to be ahistorical, showing that these writers, while recognizing the claims of history and the interdependence of nature and culture, also understand and attempt to represent wild nature as something different, other. A contribution to the growing literature of eco-criticism, the book is a response to and critique of recent arguments about the constructed nature of wilderness. Imagining Wild America demonstrates the richness and continuing importance of the idea of wilderness, and its attraction for American writers. John R. Knott is Professor of English, University of Michigan. His previous books include The Huron River: Voices from the Watershed, coedited with Keith Taylor.


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