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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jenny KerberPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Volume: 4 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.470kg ISBN: 9781554583065ISBN 10: 1554583063 Pages: 295 Publication Date: 30 March 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contents"Writing in Dust: Reading the Prairie Environmentally by Jenny Kerber Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. """"This soil is rich"""": Reading the Environment in the Early Prairie Novel Chapter 3. How Do You Grow a Nature Writer? The Prairie Nature Memoir Chapter 4. Unsettling the Prairie: The Ecological Poetries of Tim Lilburn, Louise Halfe, and Madeline Coopsammy Chapter 5. """"We're just getting started"""": Storytelling as Environmental Work in Green Grass, Running Water, Sweeter Than All the World, and The Diviners Chapter 6. Conclusion Bibliography Index"ReviewsThis is the right book at the right time. Writing in Dust convincingly demonstrates the importance of including the arts in discussions of sustainability. Jenny Kerber s scholarship, sensitive and rigorous, rereads familiar texts in fresh ways and makes the field of prairie literary scholarship newly relevant. - Alison Calder, University of Manitoba, co-editor of History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies (2005), editor of Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn (WLU Press, 2006) Author InformationJenny Kerber teaches in the areas of Canadian and American literature, literary theory, and environmental criticism in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Her essays on Canadian literary and environmental topics have appeared in Canadian Poetry, Canadian Literature, Essays on Canadian Writing, and Green Letters. This is her first book. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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