The Isle Reader

by Branch, Michael P.; Slovic, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780820325170
• ISBN10: 0820325171
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

Summary

This volume gathers nineteen of the most representative and defining essays from the journalISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environmentover the course of its first ten years.Following an introduction that traces the stages of ecocriticism's development,The ISLE Readeris organized into three sections, each of which reflects one of the general goals the journal has sought to accomplish. The section titled "Re-evaluations" provides new readings of familiar environmental writers and new environmental perspectives on authors or literary traditions not usually considered from a green perspective. The writings in "Reaching Out to Other Disciplines" promote cross-pollination among various disciplines and methodologies in the environmental arts and humanities. The writings in the final section, "New Theoretical and Practical Paradigms," are especially significant for the conceptual and methodological terrain they map.The ISLE Readerdocuments the state of research in ecocriticism and related interdisciplinary fields, provides a survey of the field, and points to new methodologies and possibilities for the future.

Author Biography

Michael P. Branch is a professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is coeditor of such books as The Height of Our Mountains and Reading the Earth. Scott Slovic is a professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. His many books include Getting over the Color Green and Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Patrick D. Murphy
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Surveying the Emergence of Ecocriticism	xiii
Michael P. Branch
Scott Slovic
Part 1: Re-evaluations
Aldo Leopold: Aesthetic ``Anthropocentrist''	3	(7)
Harold Fromm
Kitkitdizze, Zendo, and Place: Gary Snyder as a Reinhabitory Poet	10	(12)
Katsunori Yamazato
Toward a Postmodern Pastoral: The Erotic Landscape in the Work of Gretel Ehrlich	22	(11)
Gretchen Legler
``The Locus of Compossibility'': Virginia Woolf, Modernism, and Place	33	(16)
Carol H. Cantrell
No Trees Please, We're Jewish	49	(23)
Andrew Furman
The Virtual Crowd: Overpopulation, Space, and Speciesism	72	(30)
Ursula K. Heise
If Thomas Jefferson Had Visited Niagara Falls: The Sublime Wilderness Spectacle in America, 1775--1825	102	(22)
Gordon M. Sayre
Landscapes of Hope and Destruction: Ecological Poetry in Spanish America	124	(19)
Niall Binns
Part 2: Reaching Out to Other Disciplines
How Green Was My Advertising: American Ecoconsumerism	143	(12)
Lisa Lebduska
Dominion, Empathy, and Symbiosis: Gender and Anthropocentrism in Romanticism	155	(18)
Nandita Batra
KB in Green: Ecology, Critical Theory, and Kenneth Burke	173	(15)
Randall Roorda
Tales of the Wonderful Hunt	188	(15)
Ian Marshall
Going to Basho's Pine: Wilderness Education for the Twenty-first Century	203	(14)
R. Edward Grumbine
Ten+ (Alternative) Films about American Cities	217	(26)
Scott Macdonald
Part 3: New Theoretical and Practical Paradigms
Literary Activism and the Bioregional Agenda	243	(15)
Paul Lindholdt
Ecocriticism: What Is It Good For?	258	(24)
Robert Kern
Toward a Natural History of Reading	282	(14)
John Tallmadge
From Wide Open Spaces to Metropolitan Places: The Urban Challenge to Ecocriticism	296	(22)
Michael Bennett
Home on the Prairie? A Feminist and Postcolonial Reading of Sharon Butala, Di Brandt, and Joy Kogawa	318	(27)
Cheryl Lousley
Notes on Editors and Contributors	345	(6)
Credits	351	(2)
Index	353