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Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature, Lynch, Tom, Goo
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
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- Book Title
- Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literatur
- ISBN
- 9780896726383
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Nature
- Publication Name
- Xerophilia : Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Item Length
- 8.3 in
- Subject
- Subjects & Themes / Nature, American / General, Ecology, Essays
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Weight
- 18 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 282 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
ISBN-10
089672638X
ISBN-13
9780896726383
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038556649
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
282 Pages
Publication Name
Xerophilia : Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature
Language
English
Subject
Subjects & Themes / Nature, American / General, Ecology, Essays
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Nature
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2008-022938
Reviews
'Xerophilia' is not an unnatural affection for copy machines. Bioregionalist ecocritic Tom Lynch uses the word to indicate an embrace of deserts -- their biotic elements and their inhabitants. Lynch plumbs a sampling of fiction and nonfiction, inviting inhabitants of verdant places to see the exotic differences of arid lands rather than thinking in simplistic terms of culturally-tinted deficits. --Todd Mercer, ForeWord, Nov./Dec., 2008 ""This highly readable volume of literary criticism is based on the hope that literature can help foster sustainable ways of living in the American Southwest... The book makes a strong case for literature's role in achieving sustainable practices without overstating it. Autobiographical reflections, narrative sections, and the inclusion of photographs taken by the author confirm Lynch's own xerophilia, a condition that readers might find themselves catching."" --The Bloomsbury Review, Vol. 29/Issue 2, Mar/Apr 2009
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
810.9/979
Synopsis
The arid American Southwest is host to numerous organisms described as desert-loving, or xerophilous. Extending this term to include the region?s writers and the works that mirror their love of desert places, Tom Lynch presents the first systematically ecocritical study of its multicultural literature. By revaluing nature and by shifting literary analysis from an anthropocentric focus to an ecocentric one, Xerophilia demonstrates how a bioregional orientation opens new ways of thinking about the relationship between literature and place. Applying such diverse approaches as environmental justice theory, phenomenology, border studies, ethnography, entomology, conservation biology, environmental history, and ecoaesthetics, Lynch demonstrates how a rooted literature can be symbiotic with the world that enables and sustains it. Analyzing works in a variety of genres by writers such as Leslie Marmon Silko, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, Ray Gonzales, Charles Bowden, Susan Tweit, Gary Paul Nabhan, Pat Mora, Ann Zwinger, and Janice Emily Bowers, this study reveals how southwestern writers, in their powerful role as community storytellers, contribute to a sustainable bioregional culture that persuades inhabitants to live imaginatively, intellectually, and morally in the arid bioregions of the American Southwest., Examines works by such writers as Leslie Marmon Silko, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, and others in the first systematically ecocritical study of multicultural literature of the American Southwest., The arid American Southwest is host to numerous organisms described as desert-loving, or xerophilous. Extending this term to include the region's writers and the works that mirror their love of desert places, Tom Lynch presents the first systematically ecocritical study of its multicultural literature. By revaluing nature and by shifting literary analysis from an anthropocentric focus to an ecocentric one, Xerophilia demonstrates how a bioregional orientation opens new ways of thinking about the relationship between literature and place. Applying such diverse approaches as environmental justice theory, phenomenology, border studies, ethnography, entomology, conservation biology, environmental history, and ecoaesthetics, Lynch demonstrates how a rooted literature can be symbiotic with the world that enables and sustains it. Analyzing works in a variety of genres by writers such as Leslie Marmon Silko, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, Ray Gonzales, Charles Bowden, Susan Tweit, Gary Paul Nabhan, Pat Mora, Ann Zwinger, and Janice Emily Bowers, this study reveals how southwestern writers, in their powerful role as community storytellers, contribute to a sustainable bioregional culture that persuades inhabitants to live imaginatively, intellectually, and morally in the arid bioregions of the American Southwest.
LC Classification Number
PS169.E25L96 2008
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