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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: asle] favorite ecocritical reading of a novel
Two readings that leap to mind are ... Richard Kerridge's "Small rooms and the ecosystem: environmentalism and DeLillo's White Noise," and in Lawrence Buell's Writing for an Endangered World, the chapter "Modernization and the Claims of the Natural World," which detects in Go Down, Moses an incipient environmental ethic consistent with Also Leopold's thinking. Great query, and I'm enjoying the various responses. All best, Jeff +++++++++++++++++ Jeffrey M. McCarthy Chair of Environmental Studies Associate Professor of English Westminster College 1840 South 1300 East Salt Lake City, Utah 84105 (801) 832 2374
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