Research Catalog

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Description

1. viii, 199 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

1. This study brings together the genres of autobiography and environmental literature. It examines a form of grief narrative in which writers deal with mourning by standing outside the text in writing about the natural world, and inside it in making that exposition part of the grieving process.

Series statement

1. Under the sign of nature

Uniform title

1. Under the sign of nature.

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. American prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism
3. Autobiography
4. Authors, American > Biography > History and criticism
5. Natural history > United States > Historiography
6. Naturalists > Biography > History and criticism
7. Nature in literature
8. Autobiographies as Topic
9. autobiography (genre)
10. American prose literature
11. Authors, American > Biography
12. Natural history > Historiography
13. Naturalists > Biography
14. Naturalismus
15. Letterkunde
16. Amerikaans
17. Autobiografieën
18. Natuur
19. Verdriet
20. Prosa
21. United States
22. USA

Genre/Form

1. Autobiography
2. Autobiographies.
3. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Writing the self through others -- Living the questions, writing the story : Sue Hubbell's A Country year -- An unnatural history made natural : Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge -- When all the world is cancerous : Bill Barich's laughing in the hills -- Constructing a self on the road : William Least Heat-Moon's Blue highways -- Pilgrimage to fashion a Zen self : Peter Matthiessen's The Snow leopard -- Making a home on the range : Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of open spaces and Western myths.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.