This manifesto summarizes the disparate critical practices that constitute ''ecocriticism.'' By Lawrence Buell. With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it.
He is best known for his two previous books on environmental criticism, The Environmental Imagination (1995) and Writing for an Endangered World (2001). This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural environment.
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The environmental imagination : Thoreau, nature writing, and the formation of American culture. [Lawrence Buell] -- With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This article is also available for rental through DeepDyve. Lawrence Buell is Professor of English at Harvard University.
It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide, This PDF is available to Subscribers Only. ), Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1215–1216, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945179. He seeks a new way of conceiving the relationship between human imagination and environmental actuality in the age of Lawrence Buell, one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism, traces the ecocritical movement back to its roots in the 1970s, through its coalescence into a recognizable entity in the early 1990s, to its diversification and proliferation today.
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Bernard Rosenthal, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. xii, 586 pp.
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