Search for dissertations about: "nature-writing"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word nature-writing.

  2. 1. Nature Writing of the Anthropocene

    Author : Christian Hummelsund Voie; Anders Olsson; Peter Mortensen; Scott Slovic; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : Anthropocenic awareness; nature writing; material nature writing; material ecocriticism; environmental justice; rhapsody; jeremiad; the dignification of the overlooked; functional aesthetics; anti-landscape; necroregion; retreat; confrontation;

    Abstract : The point of departure for this study is the hypothesis that the American genre of nature writing has reached an important crossroads in the way it describes the human-nature relationship. My study argues that the awareness of the large-scale environmental changes that are signaled in terms such as the Anthropocene has changed the way nature writers approach their genre. READ MORE

  4. 2. Faces of Thoreau in American Literature

    Author : Steven Hartman; Ronald Bosco; State University of New York University at Albany Department of English; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ; Jerome Lawrence 1915-2004 ; Robert E. Lee 1918 -1994 ; Edward Abbey 1927–1989 ; Hayden Carruth 1921–2008 ; Walden; Civil Disobedience; cultural reception; cultural appropriation; literary reenactment; literary activism; intertextuality; iconography; canonization; American literature; reception theory; reader response; nature writing; political writing; literature of protest; cultural critique; biography; hagiography; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Amos Bronson Alcott; William Ellery Channing; James Russell Lowell; Robert Louis Stevenson; Mohandas Gandhi; Henry Salt; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : Doctoral dissertation supervised by Professor Ronald A. Bosco (co-supervised by Professor Judith Johnson and Professor Judith Fetterley), Department of English, University at Albany, State University of New York. READ MORE

  5. 3. Alma Natura, Ars Severa; Expanses and Limits of Craft in Henry David Thoreau

    Author : Henrik Otterberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Thoreau; nature; nature-writing; ecocriticism; poetics; aesthetics; modernity; technology; railroad; autobiography; immanence; transcendence; rhetoric; perspicuity; obscurity; parable; animals; myth; mythology; Walden; “hound; bay horse; and turtle-dove”; “A Winter Walk”; Journal; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers;

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  6. 4. Text, Place and Mobility : Investigations of Outdoor Education, Ecocriticism and Environmental Meaning Making

    Author : Petra Hansson; Leif Östman; Johan Öhman; Marcia McKenzie; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Pragmatism; text analysis; environmental meaning making; outdoor education; Ecocriticism; Curriculum Studies; Didaktik;

    Abstract : The overall ambition of this thesis is to investigate the approaches taken to environmental and sustainability education in outdoor education and ecocriticism in a Swedish and in an international context, to investigate environmental meaning making and to conduce to the development of analytical methods for empirical investigations of environmental meaning making. Four objectives are formulated. READ MORE