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Illustration from William J. Long's School of the Woods (1902), showing an otter teaching her young to swim. The nature fakers controversy was an early 20th-century American literary debate highlighting the conflict between science and sentiment in popular nature writing.
This books concentrates on the origins of American nature writing. Trimble, Stephen, "Words From the Land: Encounters with Natural History Writing". Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1995 (revised edition). ISBN 978-0874172645. This book is a representative collection of essays which goes over the contemporary part of nature writing.
In comparison with other 'political' forms of criticism, there has been relatively little dispute about the moral and philosophical aims of ecocriticism, although its scope has broadened from nature writing, romantic poetry, and canonical literature to take in film, television, theatre, animal stories, architectures, scientific narratives and an extraordinary range of literary texts.
The nature–culture divide is the notion of a dichotomy between humans and the environment. [1] It is a theoretical foundation of contemporary anthropology that considers whether nature and culture function separately from one another, or if they are in a continuous biotic relationship with each other.
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder: Richard Louv: 2005: Nature deficit disorder: ISBN 978-1-56512-605-3: Latin American World Model: Amilcar Herrera, Hugo Scolnick, et al. 1976: Ecology Population: ISBN 0-88936-083-9: The Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters ...
The environmental humanities (also ecological humanities) is an interdisciplinary area of research, drawing on the many environmental sub-disciplines that have emerged in the humanities over the past several decades, in particular environmental literature, environmental philosophy, environmental history, science and technology studies, environmental anthropology, [1] and environmental ...
Notes From Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice: University of Idaho: 23 Christoph Irmscher 2016-17 Indiana University, Bloomington [10] XI (7-9 June 2016) Sharp Eyes IX: Local, Regional, Global: The Many Faces of Nature Writing: State University of New York College at Oneonta: XII (8-11 June 2016)
Interest in the relationship between Darwinism and the study of literature began in the nineteenth century, for example, among Italian literary critics. [2] For example, Ugo Angelo Canello argued that literature was the history of the human psyche, and as such, played a part in the struggle for natural selection, while Francesco de Sanctis argued that Emile Zola "brought the concepts of ...