Teaching environmental literature : materials, methods, resources

Book

Teaching environmental literature : materials, methods, resources / edited by Frederick O. Waage.

Waage, Frederick O., 1943- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0873523083 :
ISBN: 9780873523080
ISBN: 0873523091 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 9780873523097 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xvi, 191 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1985.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-188).
Formatted Contents Note:: What teaching environmental literature might be / Walter H. Clark, Jr. -- American literary environmentalism before Darwin / Bruce Piasecki -- American literary environmentalism, 1864-1920 / Frederick O. Waage -- Nature book in action / Richard G. Lillard -- Views of nature : an interplay of personal reflection and literary natural history / Ralph H. Lutts -- Environmental literature : an approach emphasizing pluralism / Barbara Currier Bell -- Some necessary heresies revisited : science fiction as environmental fiction / Felicia Florine Campbell -- Pastoral : an ageless form of environmental literature / Joan Weatherly --

"Nature" and the classroom : outdoors and in / Jack Kligerman -- Teaching nature writing at a community college / Betsy Hilbert -- Nature writing : connecting experience with tradition / Paul T. Bryant -- "I in nature" : nature writing as self-discovery / Margaret McFadden -- Teaching wilderness values to undergraduates / John Tallmadge -- Literature and experience of nature / Charles A. Bergman -- Winter term : teaching environmental literature in the snow / Vernon Owen Grumbling --

National audubon society expedition institute : environmental reeducation / Frank Trocco -- Glen Canyon Dam / Thomas Tanner -- First-year interdisciplinary course--"the Mississippi River : humanities and civil engineering" / Lawrence O. Christensen and Larry Vonalt -- New England literature program / Walter H. Clark, Jr.