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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 214–215.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Matthew Wynn Sivils © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Clear-Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature . By Christopher Rieger. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2009. x, 202 pp. $39.75. Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 583–610.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Jamin Creed Rowan Rowan's essay traces the emergence of a new ecological discourse that began to shape thinking about urban life across disciplines in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, urban institutions such as the New Yorker embraced what historians Michael Barbour, Robert McIntosh...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 844–846.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Ursula K. Heise © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century . By Neil W. Browne. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xiv, 224 pp. $38.50. Women Writing Nature...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 409–411.
Published: 01 June 2004
... University The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America. By Dana Phillips. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 300 pp. Cloth, $74.00; paper, $24.95. Reader of the Purple Sage: Essays on Western Writers and Environmental Litera- ture. By Ann Ronald. Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 899–901.
Published: 01 December 2004
... never be a real, political opposition Anna Brickhouse, University of Colorado, Boulder Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology. By Michael A. Bryson. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2002. xvii, 228 pp...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 422–423.
Published: 01 June 2001
... the fiction of a lesbian who sometimes enjoyed reading around in ‘‘the male homo- 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 196 of 232 sexual literary tradition Melissa Solomon, Duke University Notations of the Wild: Ecology in the Poetry...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 605–607.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Susan Scott Parrish Environmental Practice and Early American Literature . By Ziser Michael . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2013 . ii , 224 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; e-book, $72.00 . Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 634–636.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., or repudiate the pastoral. This shift in attention from wilderness, frontier, and garden leads to a diverse set of authors and writings that redraw the lines between nature and culture. Although they work within different historical periods, Fallen Forests and The Ecology of Modernism reflect this trend...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 637–640.
Published: 01 September 2017
... . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2015 . vii, 260 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper, $29.50 ; e-book, $29.50 . Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts . By Zapf Hubert . London : Bloomsbury . 2016 . ix, 301 pp. Cloth , $114.00 ; e-book, $28.99 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 390–393.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Rebecca Evans Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941 . By John Claborn . London : Bloomsbury . 2018 . vii, 203. Cloth, $ 114.00 ; paper, $ 39.95 ; e-book, $ 35.95 . Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 203–206.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Betsy Klimasmith Duke University Press 2007 Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature . By Jeffrey Myers. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. ix, 188 pp. $39.95. Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 June 2017
... that the classroom’s contingency, temporariness, and interpersonal exposure yield a form of queer kinship that is contracted rather than intentionally developed. This kinship, a social iteration of the unintentional, symbiotic collaborations that anthropologists have described as “emergent ecologies,” burgeons...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 353–379.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of Fear: Edgar Allan Poe Taylor and Posthuman Ecology What is the place of fear in ecocriticism? Simon Estok addresses this question at length in a recent issue of Interdisci- plinary Studies in Literature and Environment, arguing that the West’s longstanding “fear...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 409–435.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of texts that take up this mode of invested indirection in their content and form alike, she argues for a spinster ecology that alters our notion not only of where the future lies but also of how (or if) it arrives. Ensor turns first to Silent Spring to argue that Rachel Carson’s intransitive understanding...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 827–853.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., and tone coalesce into a melancholy political ecology. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Nicole M. Cosmopolis: Merola Don DeLillo’s Melancholy Political Ecology Don DeLillo opens his 2003 novel Cosmopolis with an epigraph from Zbigniew Herbert’s poem “Report from...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 405–407.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Media Ecology . By Punday Daniel . Lincoln : Univ. of Nebraska Press . 2012 . xi, 267 pp . $60.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 The idea that media work ecologically, interacting in complex systems irreducible to models of competition or replacement, has become...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 470–472.
Published: 01 June 2003
... and the Ecological Imagination, 1929–1941. By Brad D. Lookingbill. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2001. x, 190 pp. Paper, $16.95. Refiguring the Map of Sorrow: Nature Writing and Autobiography. By Mark Allister...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 876–878.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Molly Wallace Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species . By Ursula K. Heise . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2016 . xiii, 280 pp. Cloth, $82.50 ; paper $27.50 ; e-book available. Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Sprawl trilogy (1984–1988) to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, this essay argues that cyberspace’s infinite, virtual territory provided a solution to the apparent ecological crisis of the 1980s: the fear that the United States was running out of physical room to expand due to overdevelopment...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 337–349.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Melody Jue Reference Richter Daniel deB . 2007 . “ Humanity’s Transformation of Earth’s Soil: Pedology’s New Frontier .” Soil Science 127 , no. 12 . Yet this might not always be the case. The future of AI and ecology will need to evaluate how much to let AI into our lives...