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Preface | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction: The Four Elements and the Recovery of Referentiality in Ecocriticism | p. 1 |
Climbing Through Conceptual Fences | |
The Complexity of Simplicity | p. 17 |
Difference and Responsibility in Literary Alternatives to the Nation-State | p. 33 |
Paradise or a Pair of Dice: Contradictions and Contingencies in Real and Virtual Terrains for Tomorrow's College Students | p. 47 |
Toward Transnational Ecocritical Theory: The Example of Hwa Yol Jung | p. 63 |
Surveying the Boundaries of Genre | |
Nature in the Contemporary American Novel | p. 79 |
The Non-alibi of Alien Scapes: Science Fiction and Ecocriticism | p. 89 |
The Non-alibi of Pragmatic Utopianism and Wild Variability; or, Optimistic Variations on a Science Fiction Theme | p. 109 |
Mysteries of Nature and Environmental Justice | p. 119 |
Culturally Crossing the Field | |
Nature-Nurturing Fathers in a World Beyond Our Control | p. 147 |
Scenarios of Disaster: Crying Wolf, Scaring Away the Elephants, and Heading 'Em off at the Pass | p. 163 |
Hurricanes and Hubris: American Responses in Literature and Culture to Natural Weather Extremes and Their Human-Driven Intensifications | p. 173 |
Ranging Widely in the Classroom | p. 185 |
Bibliography | p. 193 |
Index | p. 209 |
About the Author | p. 217 |
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