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Reconnecting with John Muir


Reconnecting with John Muir

Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice

von: Terry Gifford

53,93 €

Verlag: University Of Georgia Press
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 30.01.2010
ISBN/EAN: 9780820336657
Sprache: englisch

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Advancing for the first time the concept of post-pastoral practice, Reconnecting with John Muir springs from Terry Giffords understanding of the great naturalist as an exemplar of integrated, environmentally conscious knowing and writing. Just as the discourses of science and the arts were closer in Muirs day-in part, arguably, because of Muir-it is time we learned from ecology to recognize how integrated our own lives are as readers, students, scholars, teachers, and writers.When we defy the institutional separations, purposely straying from narrow career tracks, the activities of reading, scholarship, teaching, and writing can inform each other in a holistic post-pastoral professional practice. Healing the separations of culture and nature represents the next way forward from the current crossroads in the now established field of ecocriticism.The mountain environment provides a common ground for the diverse modes of engagement and mediation Gifford discusses. By attempting to understand the meaning of Muirs assertion that going to the mountains is going home, Gifford points us toward a practice of integrated reading, scholarship, teaching, and writing that is adequate to our environmental crisis.

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