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Artifacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley

Editat de Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2012
Loren Eiseley (1907–77) is one of the most important American nature writers of the twentieth century and an admired practitioner of creative nonfiction. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Eiseley was a professor of anthropology and a prolific writer and poet who worked to bring an understanding of science to the general public, incorporating religion, philosophy, and science into his explorations of the human mind and the passage of time.

As a writer who bridged the sciences and the humanities, Eiseley is a challenge for scholars locked into rigid disciplinary boundaries. Artifacts and Illuminations, the first full-length collection of critical essays on the writing of Eiseley, situates his work in the genres of creative nonfiction and nature writing. The contributing scholars apply a variety of critical approaches, including ecocriticism and place-oriented studies ranging across prairie, urban, and international contexts. Contributors explore such diverse topics as Eiseley’s use of anthropomorphism and Jungian concepts and examine how his work was informed by synecdoche. Long overdue, this collection demonstrates Eiseley’s continuing relevance as both a skilled literary craftsman and a profound thinker about the human place in the natural world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803234031
ISBN-10: 0803234031
Pagini: 364
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Nebraska Paperback
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Tom Lynch is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature. Susan N. Maher is the dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. She is coeditor of John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction
      Tom Lynch and Susan N. Maher
1. "The Bay of Broken Things": The Experience of Loss in the Work of Loren Eiseley
      Susan Hanson
2. "Never Going to Cease My Wandering": Loren Eiseley and the American Hobo
      M. Catherine Downs
3. "The Places Below": Mapping the Invisible Universe in Loren Eiseley's Plains Essays
      Susan N. Maher
4. Unearthing Urban Nature: Loren Eiseley's Explorations of City and Suburb
      Michael A. Bryson
5. Anthropomorphizing the Essay: Loren Eiseley's Representations of Animals
      Kathleen Boardman
6. "The Borders between Us": Loren Eiseley's Ecopoetics
      Tom Lynch
7. Lessons of an Interdisciplinary Life: Loren Eiseley's Rhetoric of Profundity in Popular Science Writing and "Two Cultures" Pedagogy
      Pamela Gossin
8. Artifact and Idea: Loren Eiseley's Poetic Undermining of C. P. Snow
      Mary Ellen Pitts
9. The Spirit of Synecdoche: Order and Chaos Contend in the Metaphors of Loren Eiseley
      Jacqueline Cason
10. In a Dark Wood: Dante, Eiseley, and the Ecology of Redemption
      Anthony Lioi
11. Emerson and Eiseley: Two Religious Visions
      Jonathan Weidenbaum
12. Epic Narratives of Evolution: John Burroughs and Loren Eiseley
      Stephen Mercier
13. Eiseley and Jung: Structuralism's Invisible Pyramid
      John Nizalowski
14. From the American Great Plains to the Steppes of Russia: Loren Eiseley Transplanted
      Dimitri N. Breschinsky
Works Cited
Contributors
Index

Recenzii

"Past and future readings of Eiseley have been illuminated by this profound and expansive collection of essays. Anyone with a fondness for Eiseley or the journey of the American nature writing tradition will find Artifacts and Illuminations of immense interest."—Frank Izaguirre, Ecozon@