Writing nature in Cold War American literature /
"Compelling analyses of the function and representation of Nature in a wide range of Cold War fiction and poetry by authors including Paul Bowles, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Mary McCarthy reveals the prevalence of portrayals of Nature as an infinite, interdependent system i...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Modern American literature and the new twentieth century.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : ecocriticism and the mid-twentieth century
- Attaining fana in Paul Bowles's infinite landscapes
- Nature and the nuclear Southwest : Peggy Pond Church and J. Robert Oppenheimer
- The influence of Chinese and Japanese literature on J.D. Salinger's philosophy of nature
- The Beat ecologies of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac
- Bifurcated nature in Mary McCarthy's Birds of America
- Conclusion : 'know that the earth will madonna the Bomb'.
