Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives
Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada
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2012
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1st ed. 2012
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-43342-1 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-43342-1 (ISBN)
The concept of 'wilderness' as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debates. Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives offers a taxonomy of the forms that wilderness writing has taken in Australian and Canadian literature, re-emphasizing both country's origins as colonies.
KYLIE CRANE is a Junior Professor for Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Mainz, Germany.
An(n)alogies of reading place: Aritha van Herk's Places Far From Ellesmere Go on the country, not on the map: Tim Winton's Dirt Music A 'calligraphy of landscape': Kim Mahood's Outback in Craft for a Dry Lake 'Line drifts between the opposing points': Mark Hume's River of the Angry Moon 'Different shades of stripes': The Tasmanian Tiger and Julia Leigh's The Hunter Culture Nature Future: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.12.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment |
| Zusatzinfo | VII, 228 p. |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | Canada • Colonialism • Culture • Environment • Lake • narrative • Taxonomy |
| ISBN-10 | 1-349-43342-X / 134943342X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-43342-1 / 9781349433421 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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