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“…He documents the emergence of the modern form of nature writing as a reaction to industrialization. Scheese's personal observations of natural settings sharpen the reader's understanding of the dynamics between author and locale. …”

“…The New Nature Writing: Rethinking Place in Contemporary Literature offers the first critical study of the genre. …”

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“…Premio John Burroughs al Mejor Libro de Nature Writing…”

“…Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing was first published in 1967. Greeted with acclaim, it went on to win the Duff Cooper Prize, the pre-eminent literary prize of the time. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The anatomy of Francoist power -- (De)limiting women's true nature : writing women's bodies onto Francoist body politic -- Fallen women : public morality in transition -- Perfect wives and mothers -- Modern women's docile bodies -- Strangers in the dark…”

“…Christof Mauch is a leading German historian who has spent many years in the US and in this book he attempts, from a European perspective, to grasp the diversity of American culture and the transformation of its environments, combining travel reporting with nature writing, personal observation and philosophical reflection. …”

“…In the development of new formats for awarding prizes and awarding practices shows how literary literary events into the cultural changes of contemporary society. contemporary society; the emergence of new prize profiles signals and promotes the acceptance of new genres (such as comics, blogs or nature writing) in the literary writing in the literary field; special prizes strengthen new alliances between literary between literary values and social objectives such as inclusion or inclusion or ecology; they promote new types of texts, new types of authors, new types of authors, new places, themes and forms of literary and evaluation. …”

“…Humboldt predicted human-induced climate change as early as 1800, and 'The Invention of Nature' traces his ideas as they go on to revolutionize and shape science, conservation, nature writing, politics, art and the theory of evolution. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Writing Between Stillness And Movement: Script-Bearing Artefacts In Courtly German Literature -- Inscriptions In Old Norse Literature -- Inscriptions In British Literature: From Runes To The Rise Of Public Poetry -- Old French Narrated Inscriptions -- Inscriptions In Italian Literature -- Inscriptions On The Iberian Peninsula: Material Script And Narrative Logic In Castilian And Catalan Literatures -- Culture In Nature: Writing On Wood -- Inscriptions On Stone -- From Tattoo To Stigma: Writing On Body And Skin -- Woven Words, Embroidered Stories: Inscriptions On Textiles -- Writing Spaces: Inscriptions On Architecture -- Tablets And The Poetics Of The Premodern Post-It -- Sepulchral Representation: Inscribed Tombs And Narrated Epitaphs In The High Middle Ages -- Text-Bearing Warriors: Inscriptions On Weapons -- More Than Bling: Inscribed Jewellery Between Social Distinction, Amatory Gift-Giving, And Spiritual Practice -- A Cabinet Of Curiosities -- Indices…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Wind as a crafting agent: learning from a slow engagement withtime, place, and nature / The wind-kite-me – an explorative essay about kite flying and crafting with nature / Writing companions – cat-writing as a pedagogy of messy interspecies entanglements / “You really are a thing!”…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Andrew Hageman -- An ecophilosophy of the moving image : cinema as anthrobiogeomorphic machine / Adrian Ivakhiv -- Penguins are good to think with : wildlife films, the imaginary shaping of nature, and environmental politics / Luis Vivanco -- Working with animals : regarding companion species in documentary film / Jennifer Ladino -- Beyond fluidity : a cultural history of cinema under water / Nicole Starosielski -- Nature writes the screenplays : commercial wildlife films and ecological entertainment / Claire Molloy -- Hollywood and climate change / Stephen Rust -- Appreciating the views : filming nature in Into the wild, Grizzly man, and Into the West / Pat Brereton -- Sympathy for the devil : the cannibalistic hillbilly in 1970s rural slasher films / Carter Soles -- Environmental film festivals : beginning explorations at the intersections of film festival studies and ecocinema studies / Salma Monani -- Everyone knows this is nowhere : data visualization and ecocriticism / Sean Cubitt…”

“…An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. …”

“…En Estados Unidos ha sido laureada con las más importantes distinciones en el ámbito de la poesía, pero Mary Oliver es también una ensayista excepcional, a la altura de las figuras más destacadas de la nature writing, como Annie Dillard o Robert Macfarlane. …”