1994 ASLE Bibliography
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Unity College of Maine, Unity, Maine, 1994.
Abbey, Edward
The Brave Cowboy A hardcover collector's edition of the 1956 novel. Dream Garden Press: Salt Lake City, 1994.
The 1956 novel was made into the movie Lonely Are the Brave. Includes introduction by Kirk Douglas. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Abu-Jaber, Diana
Jersey Sky n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: American Nature Writing Newsletter 6.1 (1994): 7
In a special issue on the Gaia hypothesis. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ackerman, Diane
A Natural History of Love Random House: New York, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Adams, Robert
Cottonwoods: Photographs by Robert Adams Smithsonian Institution Press: Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1994.
Book of photographs of cottonwood trees. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Adams, Robert and Stafford, William
Listening to the River: Seasons in the American West n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Aperture
Landscape photographs, accompanied by Stafford's poetry. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Adams, Robert
Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews Aperture: n.p., 1994.
Investigates the art of photography in general, from the point of view of this important landscape photographer. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Al-Madani, Yusur Wajeeh
Errand to the Center: The Archetypal Journey Image in Thoreau, Poe, and Melville n.p.: n.p., 1983.
Series: DAI 43 (1983)
Argues that "the nostalgia for paradise" in nineteenth-century American writing directed "the pattern and meaning of the journey" toward "self-discovery and self-renewal. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alaimo, Stacy
Cyborg and Ecofeminist Interventions: Challenges for an Environmental Feminism n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Feminist Studies 20 (1994)
Problematizes ecofeminism's associations of women and nature and Donna Harraway's cyborg theory. Offers alternative construction of "women and nature as agents in a mutual struggle. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Allen, William
Walking Distance: An Ohio Odyssey Black Oak Books: Cincinnati, OH, 1993.
With the help of a friend's nine-year-old daughter, the author regains a measure of faith in humanity and rediscovers the wonder of nonhuman nature. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Allen, Paula Gunn
Voice of the Turtle: American Indian Literature, 1900-1970 Ballantine: New York, 1994.
Anthology of American Indian fiction and nonfiction focused on the theme of transformation; twenty-three works by seventeen authors. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alvarez, Ken
Twilight of the Panther: Biology, Bureaucracy, and Failure in an Endangered Species Program Myakka River Publishing: Sarasota, FL, n.d..
Florida conservationist Alvarez analyzes in detail the failure of government efforts to save the panther" -- Dave Foreman --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alverson, William S., Donald M. Waller and Walter Khulmann
Wild Forests: Conservation Biology and Public Policy Island: Washington, D.C., 1994.
The authors, who have been involved in a "trail-blazing proposal to restore old-growth forests...dissect current forest management and how it threatens biodiversity" -- Dave Foreman --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Anderson, Alison
Source Strategies and the Communication of Environmental Affairs n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: Media, Culture, and Society 13.4 (1991): 459-476 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Anderson, Chris
Edge Effects: Notes from an Oregon Forest U of Iowa P: Iowa City, 1993. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Arnold, Richard Sidney
Conservation and the Uses of Nature in Writings of Thoreau, Muir, and Abbey n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: DAI 54 (1994)
Studies "the evolution in attitudes toward the environment in American politics and literature," leading to a reassessment of Thoreau, Muir, and Abbey as "literary artists." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Austin, Mary
Cactus Thorn U of Nevada P: Reno, 1994.
A love story set in the southwestern desert. Melody Graulich's foreword and afterword essays discuss "how Austin's themes are timeless in setting and moral tone." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------B-authorsBaker, Jennifer Jordan
'In a Thicket': Glenway Westcott's Pastoral Vision n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Studies in Short Fiction 31.2 (1994): 187-195 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Balloon, Victoria Ann
Letting the Ape and the Tiger Die: The Man/Animal Dichotomy in Three Works of American Literature, 1906-1914 n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: DAI 32 (1994)
Considers "the degree to which Darwinian evolution and Spencerian philosophy" affected each author's "view of what the man/animal ambiguity means to the human condition." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Barclay, Donald A., James H. Maguire and Peter Wild
Into the Wilderness Dream: Exploration Narratives of the American West U of Utah P: Salt Lake City, 1994.
Selections of accounts by Spanish, French, English, and American explorers who came before Lewis and Clark. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Barcott, Bruce
Northwest Passages: A Literary Anthology of the Pacific Northwest from Coyote Tales to Roadside Attractions Sasquatch: Seattle, 1994.
Excerpted passages from native songs and European encounters to postwar and contemporary writers. Each of the 75 entries is prefaced by a short introduction to the author. Foreword by Charles Johnson --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Barnard, Anne
A North American Connection: Women in Prairie Novels n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Great Plains Quarterly 14.1 (1994): 21-28
Prairie fiction in Canada and the U.S. is exemplified both by references to physical space and by "the positioning of the female character within that space. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Barnett, Gabrielle
Performing for the Forest n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Theater 25.1 (1994): 52-61 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bass, Rick
Platte River Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1994.
Collection of three novellas. Non-human nature figures prominently in stories centering on humans. Set in Montana, Michigan, New England --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Beeler, Michael
Jurassic Park in Cartoon Land: The Flintstones n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Cinefantastique 25.3 (1994): 8-23 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Anthology
The Literature of Nature: The British and American Traditions Editor Begiebing, Robert J. Grumbling, Owen Plexus: Medford, NJ, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Begoray, Noreen Joan
Ecofeminism: Tracing the Theoretical Roots n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: DAI 32 (1994
Argues that "ecofeminism should look toward...a more thoroughly substantiated historical account of alienation from women and nature" in defining "the relationship between humans and nature." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benjamin, Nancy Berg
Traditional Enclosed Gardens in Ninteenth-Century American Fiction: The Constriction of Adamic Aspirations n.p.: n.p., 1985.
Series: DAI 45 (1985
Offers a "complementary view" of the Edenic Myth in American literature, examining how "the walled garden paradoxically razes barriers," to clarify "our shared human condition." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bennett, Jane
Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Beran, Carol L.
The Studhorse Man: Translating the Boundaries of Text n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Great Plains Quarterly 14.3 (1994): 185-94
The opening of Kroetsch's novel subverts fabulation into a more traditional travel/pioneer narrative of the Canadian Plains. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Berger, Bruce
There Was a River: Essays on the Southwest U of Arizona P: Tucson, 1994.
Skilled language and extraordinary descriptions" -- Publishers Weekly. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bergon, Frank
The Wilderness Reader Reprint of 1980 Penguin edition with a new preface by Bergon. U of Nevada P: Reno, 1994.
Selections from the "literature of the American wilderness," from William Byrd to John McPhee. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bergon, Frank
Shoshone Mike U of Nevada P: Reno, 1994.
A historical novel about a 200-mile hunt for a Native American man "trying to preserve the ways of his ancestors against the forces of history." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Beunat, Nathalie
Nature vs. Culture in Dashiell Hammett's Nightmare Town n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Clues: A Journal of Detection 15.1 (1994): 53-58 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bishop Jr., James
Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist: The Life and Legacy of Edward Abbey Atheneum: New York, 1994.
A former Newsweek correspondent's biography, including information from Abbey's papers. -- Dave Foreman --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Black, Ralph
From Concord Out: Henry David Thoreau and the Natural Sublime n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 2.1 (1994): 65-75
Thoreau challenges himself epistemologically and geographically and emerges with a language and form to represent the confluence of nature and culture. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Blair, Elizabeth
The Politics of Place in Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literature 6.3 (1994): 15-21
While it is touted that Native American literature is often about "finding home," Hogan's novel deals with defining "home" and "place" in a land "borrowed and broken" as oil fields. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Blevins, Winfred
Dictionary of the American West Facts on File: New York, 1993.
Definitions, histories, and stories define 5,000 expressions that appear in historical texts and contemporary speech in the rural West. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bolling, David M.
How to Save a River: A Handbook for Citizen Action Island: Washington, D.C., 1994.
A journalist and conservationist "has written the first comprehensive guidebook to river preservation," including information on politics, fundraising, and working with the media. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bonta, Marcia
American Women Afield: Writings by Pioneering Women Naturalists Texas A&M UP: College Station, TX, 1991. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bossard, Timothy Dean
Cape Cod: Thoreau's Experiment in Human Culture n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: DAI 54 (1994)
Suggests that Thoreau's "attempt to come to literary terms with the inhuman chaos of nature" presages "the great act of self-creation" found in Walden. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Branch, Michael Paul
The Enlightened Naturalist: Ecological Romanticism in American Literature Dissertation, University of Virginia n.p.: Charlottesville, VA, 1992.
Demonstrates how "post-Civil War nature writers" helped "promulgate the ecological ethos" leading to an "American romantic tradition" of increasing importance to today's American values. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Branch, Michael
Ecocriticism: Surviving Institutionalization in the Academic Environment n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 2.1 (1994): 91-99
As environmentally concerned discourse becomes institutionalized, three possible problem areas emerge: Definitions of Literacy, Academic Capitalism, and Practice. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Branch, Michael
Ecocriticism: The Nature of Nature in Literary Theory and Practice n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Weber Studies 11.1 (1994): 41-55 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Branch, Michael
You Say You Want a Revolution? Environmental Reform in the Literature of the 1860's and 1960's Viet Nam Generation Inc.: Woodbridge, CT, 1994.
Compares 19th century nature writing such as that by Emerson, Muir, and George P. Marsh with 20th century writing such as that by Carson and Berry --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brooks, Paul
The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work and Selections from her Writings Houghton Mifflin: New York, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brown, Patricia Claire
The Spiderweb: A Time Structure in Leslie Silko's Ceremony n.p.: n.p., 1986.
Series: DAI 47 (1986)
Considers the intersecting nature of the three views of time Silko employs: circular, horizontal, and vertical, in moving "between myth and 'reality'" within the narratives. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brown, Charles S.
Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism: The Quest for a New World View n.p.: n.p., 1995.
Series: Midwest Quarterly 36.2 (1995): 191-202
Examines organic and mechanistic metaphors of the human relationship to the world. Includes discussions of deep ecology and ecofeminism. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bruchac, Joseph
Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival U of Arizona P: Tucson, 1994.
Contributions from 92 writers, plus commentary. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bruchac, Joseph
The Four Directions are Alive n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: American Nature Writing Newsletter 6.2 (1994): 8
In special issue on Native Americans. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bruhn, Mark J.
A Home Where the Heart Is: Wordsworth's Domestication of Coleridge's Supernatural Poems n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: CEA Critic 56.3 (1994): 28-42
Examines William Wordsworth's "The Brothers" as related to the life of the Ancient Mariner, specifically the natural versus the supernatural.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bruner, Michael and Oelschlager, Max
Rhetoric, Environmentalism, and Environmental Ethics n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Environmental Ethics 16.4 (1994): 377-396
Argues for value of traditional rhetoric to environmental advocacy. By abandoning classical rhetoric, environmentalists have not fulfilled potential of Leopold's land ethic or Snyder's myth making. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Buckley, Christopher
Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California U of Nevada P: Reno, 1994.
"Cherishing a more innocent time and richer environment...Buckley vividly re-creates both the physical and social details" of California youth in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Buell, Lawrence
The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture Harvard UP: Cambridge, MA, 1994.
"[E]xplores a series of environmentally responsive forms" by Thoreau, Burroughs, Muir, Silko, Carson, Berry, Cather, and others to develop theoretical and historical frameworks for understanding environmental representation.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Burks, David Clarke
Place of the Wild: A Wildlands Anthology Island Press: Covelo, CA, 1994.
Features Gary Paul Nabhan, Terry Tempest Williams, John Haines, Gary Snyder, Dave Foreman, Max Oelschlaeger, Christopher Manes, Bill McKibben, Kirkpatrick Sales, others.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Burr, Cornelia Ann
Perceptions of the Landscape in Twentieth Century American Literature: Landscapes from Four American Regional Writers n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: DAI 55 (1994)
Argues that "the creative literary devices regional authors employ" should "assume a greater relevance and importance" in the investigation of regional land use patterns.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Busch, Robert
Wolf Songs Sierra Club: San Francisco, 1994.
Essays and stories about wolves and the human response to them, by authors ranging from Aldo Leopold to Rick Bass.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Butala, Sharon
The Perfection of the Morning: An Apprenticeship in Nature HarperCollins: Toronto, 1994.
Discusses her connection with and inspiration from the landscape of Saskatchewan.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Butterfield, Bruce A.
The Mediator is the Message: Anne Dawe, Cana-Dawe, and Badlands as a State of Mind n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Great Plains Quarterly 14.3 (1994): 195-206
Kroetsch's use of character to reclaim Canada from being a "bad" -- "poorly understood, inaccurately and inadequately named" (204) -- land, which is then empowering.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------C-authorsCampbell, SueEllen
Feasting in the Wilderness: The Language of Food in American Wilderness Narratives n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: American Literary History 6 (1994) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cantrell, Carol H.
Women and Language in Susan Griffin's Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Hypatia 9.3 (1994): 225-238 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cantrill, James G. and Killingsworth, M. Jimmie, et al.
Proceedings of the Conference on Communication and Our Environment Northern Michigan U Printing Services: Marquette, 1993.
Session titles include "The News," "Animal Talk," "Discourse and Values," "Enviro-Political Communication," "Policy and Public Planning Discourse," "The Ecofeminist Challenge," and "Public Education."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carey, Ken
Flat Rock Journal: A Day in the Missouri Ozarks HarperCollins: San Francisco, 1994.
Memoir of a day-long spiritual journey in the Ozark forest.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carlin, John
Metaphors of Vision: The Mediation of Self and Nature Through Language in the Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Cole, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Thomas Eakins n.p.: n.p., 1987.
Series: DAI 47 (1987)
The crux of Emerson's linguistic theory is distinguished by his belief that "language structures thought" and that it must adapt to nature's "fluxionally radiating patterns."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carr, Archie
A Naturalist in Florida: A Celebration of Eden Yale UP: New Haven, 1994.
Ed. Marjorie Harris Carr. Anthology of work by Florida naturalist Archie Carr. Foreword by Edward O. Wilson.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cassuto, David N.
Waging Water: Hydrology vs. Mythology in The Monkey Wrench Gang n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 2.1 (1994): 13-36
Uses various political realities surrounding the Glen Canyon Dam to illuminate Edward Abbey's novel.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cassuto, David N.
Cold Running River U of Michigan P: Ann Arbor, 1994.
History of Michigan's Pere Marquette River, from prehistory through its "death" to its recovery.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cassuto, David N.
Dripping Dry: Literature, Politics and Water in the Desert Southwest n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: DAI 55 (1994)
Asserts "the role of water as a privileged sign" in Southwest literature and politics, focusing on the works of Mary Austin, John Steinbeck, and Edward Abbey.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cattarulla, Kay
Texas Bound: 19 Texas Stories Southern Methodist UP: College Station, TX, 19994.
Stories by Rick Bass, Lee Merrill Byrd, Diane DeSanders, Mary K. Flatten, Reginald McKnight, Larry McMurtry, Tomas Rivera, and others.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cernich, Christopher Michael
'Salvage Lande': The Puritan Wilderness and the Preservation of the World n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: DAI 54 (1994)
Argues the Puritans' wilderness was less a "convenient metaphor for spiritual self-examination" tha a "conscious creation," important for "the moral influence it exerted."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chaudhuri, Una
'There Must Be a Lot of Fish in That Lake': Toward an Ecological Theater n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Theater 25.1 (1994): 23-31 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chaudhuri, Una
Theater and Ecology Theater 25.1 (1994): 23-71 Editor Chaudhuri, Una n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Theater 25.1 (1994): 23-71
Special section.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cheek, Lawrence
A.D. 1250: Ancient Peoples of the Southwest U of Arizona P: Tucson, 1994.
History of Anasazi, Sinagua, Mogollon, Hohokam, and Salado cultures and guide to prehistoric ruins.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cherry, Kelly
The Two Cultures at the End of the Twentieth Century: An Essay on Poetry and Science n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Midwest Quarterly 35.2 (1994): 121-135
Argues that literature, as a way of understanding the world, is enriched by science. Includes brief commentary on sample poems, including some of her own.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Clark, Tim W. and Steven C. Minta
Greater Yellowstone's Future Homestead: Moose, WY, 1994.
Two biologists "give an overview of the history, biology, and current human uses of the greater Yellowstone region," analyze management problems, and suggest policy changes. -- Dave Foreman--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Clark, H. Jackson
The Owl in Monument Canyon and Other Stories from Indian Country U of Utah P: Salt Lake City, 1994.
Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Clarke, J.J.
Voices of the Earth: An Anthology of Ideas and Arguments George Braziller: New York, 1994.
Extracts from both Western and non-Western traditions, covering "the enormous range of discussions and debates" about the natural world, with comprehensive introductions for each section.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Clow, Deborah and Snow, Donald
Northern Lights: A Selection of New Writing from the American West Vintage: New York, 1994.
Selected non-fiction and poetry from the magazine Northern Lights. Includes Gretel Ehrlich, Edward Abbey, Richard Nelson, Frederick Turner, Marilynne Robinson, others.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cohen, Michael P.
Response to Branch's 'Ecocriticism' n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 2.1 (1994): 105-109
Institutions sometimes attack new thought, sometimes protect new thinkers. Includes a bibliography on environmental history.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cokinos, Christopher
A Hawk in the Margin's Cage: Robinson Jeffers and the Norton Anthologies n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 1.2 (1993): 25-44
Norton Anthologies marginalizes Jeffers through textual selection and prose notes so that his presence acts to highlight mainstream canonical works.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cokinos, Christopher
Gaia, Shiva, Poetry n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: American Nature Writing Newsletter 6.1 (1994): 5-6
In a special issue on the Gaia hypothesis.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Connor, Sheila
New England Natives: A Celebration of People and Trees Harvard UP: Cambridge, MA, 1994.
Evocation of New England's landscape by the horticulture research archivist of the Arnold Arboretum.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cooley, John
Earthly Words: Essays on Contemporary American Nature and Environmental Writers U of Michigan P: Ann Arbor, 1994.
Critical essays on Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Joseph Wood Krutch, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, John McPhee, and Gary Snyder.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Coppolino, Eric F.
Pandora's Poison n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Sierra 79.5 (1994): 40+
Author argues that Westinghouse, GE, and Monsanto knew about the harmful effects of PCBs since the 1930s, but concealed this information from the public.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cornwell, Margery
'A Bird in the Hand is a Certainty, but a Bird in the Bush May Sing': Description of a Literature Course About Humans and Nature Using a Curriculum of Inclusion n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 2.1 (1994): 123-139
Reflections on critical issues and student responses to an undergraduate seminar on literature and the environment.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Corrington, Robert S.
Ecstatic Naturalism: Signs of the World Indiana UP: n.p., 1994.
A semiotic view of nature that takes up the medieval terminology natura naturans and natura naturata to advance a "revolution in contemporary philosophy." Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cuomo, Christine June
Ecological Feminism as Environmental Ethics n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: DAI 53 (1993)
Argues that much ecofeminist theory "is...not in accord with feminist goals;" to remain "viable" it must "strengthen its connection to social and ecological activism."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------D-authorsDaniel, John
The Trail Home Pantheon: New York, 1994.
Paperback edition of his 1992 book, adding an essay on Wallace Stegner and "The Limits of Paradise."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Darlington, David
Return to the River n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Sierra 79.4 (1994): 58+
Author compares his recent white water raft trip on the Tuolumne with one he took in 1978. Also, argues against damming one of the Tuolumne's tributataries.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Davidson, Arnold E.
Coyote Country: Fictions of the Canadian West Duke UP: Durham, NC, 1994.
Studies a range of writing by "Canada's most interesting and experimental Western writers."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dean, Thomas K.
Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko as Nature Writer n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: American Nature Writing Newletter 6.2 (1994): 15-16
In a special issue on Native Americans.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DeLafosse, Peter H.
Trailing the Pioneers: The Pioneering of Emigrant Trails, 1846-1850 Utah State UP: Logan, UT, 1994.
"A modern day road guide for following the five major emigrant trails in Utah, with historical background and excerpts from actual pioneer journals."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Delgrado, Juan
Green Web U of Georgia P: Athens, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Deming, Alison Hawthorne
Science and Other Poems Louisiana State UP: Baton Rouge, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Devall, Bill
Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry Sierra Club: San Francisco, 1994.
A coffee table book set apart by "images of industrial devastation of our forests and the deep wisdom of its essays." -- Dave Foreman--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dizard, Jan E.
Going Wild: Hunting, Animal Rights, and the Contested Meaning of Nature U of Massachusetts P: Amherst, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dodd, Wayne
Art and Nature: Essays by Contemporary Writers n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: Ohio Review 49 (1993)
Special issue: fourteen essays dedicatied to the theme of art and nature.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dodd, Wayne
Of Desire & Disorder Carnegie Mellon P: Pittsburgh, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Doppelt, Bob, et al.
Entering the Watershed: A New Approach to Save America's River Ecosystems Island: Washington, D.C., 1994.
"[T]his book offers an ecosystem-based watershed restoration initiative," including damage assessment, scientific underpinnings, and policy proposals.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------E-authorsEcheverria, John and Eby, Raymond Booth
Let the People Judge: Wise Use and the Private Property Rights Movement Island: Washington, D.C., 1994.
Conservation leaders like Roush, Watkins, Baca and Speth look at the property rights movement and its effect on public land conservation. -- Dave Foreman--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Edmunds, Martin
The High Road to Taos U of Illinois P: Urbana, IL, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Edwards, P.J., R.M. May and N.R. Webb
Large Scale Ecology and Conservation Biology Blackwell Scientific Publications: Cambridge, MA, 1994.
"This British anthology looks at using a large scale ecological approach for solving conservation problems." -- Dave Foreman--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ehrlich, Gretel
A Match to the Heart Pantheon: New York, 1994.
Non-fiction account of the process of Ehrlich's recovery, both physical and spiritual, after she is struck by lightning on her Wyoming ranch.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eilers, Lawrence and Roosa, Dean M.
The Vascular Plants of Iowa U of Iowa Press: Iowa City, 1994.
Includes a long essay on the natural history of Iowa's plants, discussions of origins and natural regions, and an annotated checklist.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
El-Sharif, Nabil Mahmoud
Ecological Themes in the Poetry of A.R. Ammons, Allen Ginsberg, and Gary Snyder n.p.: n.p., 1984.
Series: DAI 44 (1984)
Examines the correspondence between "popular ecological consciousness in the 1960s" and that era's poetry, noting "the interdependence of man and nature" in Ammons, Ginsberg, and Snyder.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Elder, John and Hertha Wong
Family of Earth and Sky: Indigenous Tales from Around the World Beacon: New York, 1994.
The collection is divided into stories of origins, animal transformations, and trickster figures, and a section of essays by contemporary indigenous writers.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Emerson, Ralph Waldo and Henry David Thoreau
"Nature" and "Walking" Beacon: Boston, 1991.
Introduction by John Elder; illustrations by Thomas W. Nason.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Emmeche, Claus
The Garden in the Machine: The Emerging Science of Artificial Life Princeton UP: Princeton, 1994.
Investigates "a new science": "a theoretical biology that uses a computer to simulate the emergence and evolution of life."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Enzweiler, Joseph
Stonework of the Sky Graywolf: St. Paul, MN, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etkin, Nina L.
Eating on the Wild Side: The Pharmacologic, Ecologic, and Social Implications of Using Noncultigens U of Arizona P: Tucson, 1994.
"Spans the history of human-plant interactions to examine how wild plants are used to meet medicinal, nutritional, and other human needs."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Evans, Gwyneth
The Girl in the Garden: Variations on a Feminine Pastoral Children's Literature Association Quarterly 19.1 (1994): 20-24: n.p., 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------F-authorsFarris, Sara
Woman Writing Nature: Creating an Ecofeminist Praxis DAI 53 (1993): n.p., 1993.
Considers "how five particular women writers have constructed women and nature" in their work, and "the implications in their texts for contemporary environmentalism."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fetterley, Judith
Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: College English 56.8 (1994) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Few, Roger
The Atlas of Wild Places: In Search of the Earth's Last Wildernesses Facts on File: New York, 1994.
Photographs and commentary on world's threatened wilderness refuges.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Friedman, Sharon
Two Decades of the Environmental Beat n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: Gannett Center Journal 4.3 (1990): 13-23 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fritzell, Peter A.
Nature Writing and America: Essays Upon a Cultural Type Iowa State UP: Ames, 1990.
Essays that take a critical look at nature writing in America; includes Abbey, Dillard, Eiseley, Krutch, Lopez, and Thoreau. Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fritzsche, Peter
Landscape of Danger, Landscape of Design: Crisis and Modernism in Weimar Germany Editor Kniesche, Thomas W. Brockmann, Stephen Dancing on the Volcano: Essays on the Culture of the Weimar Republic Camden House: Columbia, SC, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Frome, Michael
Strangers in High Places: The Story of the Great Smoky Mountains U of Tennessee P: Knoxville, 1994.
"Fromme tells the story of the Smoky Mountains and their friends" in this expanded edition of a 1966 book. -- Dave Foreman--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fromm, Harold
Ecology and Ideology n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: Hudson Review 45 (1992)
Contrasts recent books by Dave Foreman and Murray Bookchin.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fromm, Harold
Aldo Leopold: Aesthetic 'Anthropocentrist' n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 1.1 (1993): 43-9
All human positions are antropocentric, including Leopold's supposedly biocentric stance, in which aesthetics plays a further humanizing role.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Frost, Carol
Pure Northwestern UP: Evanston, IL, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fuchs, Elinor
Play as Landscape: Another Version of Pastoral n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Theater 25.1 (1994): 44-51 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Various
A Future of Their Choosing: A Sierra Roundtable on Population Growth and Family Planning n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Sierra 79.5 (1994): 52+
Four experts on population growth discuss one of the planet's most serious and complicated problems.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------G-authorsGaard, Greta
Thinking Green: Ecofeminists and The Greens Greta Gaard: Duluth, 1994.
Videotape (35 minutes) that explores the possibilities of building a coalition, with 25 speakers. Order from Greta Gaard ($12.00).--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gaffney, Carmel
'The Green Singer': Neilson's Pastoral Poetry n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Southerly: A Review of Australian Literature 54.2 (1994): 82-96 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Garb, Yaakov Jerome
How Scientific Accounts Appeal to Their Authors and Readers: A Case Study in the Nature Writing of Loren Eiseley n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: DAI 54 (1994)
Employs "a series of interpretive frameworks" to explore "what made a single popular scientific essay compelling to its author and audience."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Giorgio, Adalgisa
Nature vs. Culture: Repression, Rebellion and Madness in Elsa Morante's Aracoeli n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: MLN 109.1 (1994): 93-116 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gish, Robert Franklin
When Coyote Howls: A Lavaland Fable U of New Mexico P: Albuquerque, 1994.
Coyote story about his quest to find his lost voice and the need to know our past.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gish, Robert Franklin
Songs of My Hunter Heart: A Western Kinship U of New Mexico P: Albuquerque, 1994.
"This lyrical account of growing up in a family of hunters in mid-twentieth century Albuquerque expresses a deep empathy for man's place in nature."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Glendinning, Chellis
My Name is Chellis, and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization: Exploring the Link Between Addiction, Psychological Dysfunction, and the Environmental Crisis Shambhala: Boston, 1994.
A psychologist "diagnoses modern humans as suffering from post-traumatic stress...caused by a society out of touch with nature." -- Dave Foreman--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Glotfelty, Cheryll
Response to Michael Branch n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 2.1 (1994): 101-103
Favors gaining access to and influence within existing institutions despite Michael Branch's concerns about the corrupting effects of institutionalization on environmental discourse.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gottlieb, Robert
An Odd Assortment of Allies: American Environmentalism in the 1990's n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: Gannett Center Journal 4.3 (1990): 37-47 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gottlieb, Robert
Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement Island P: Covelo, CA, 1993.
Considers the historical roots of environmentalism, increasing professionalism, and the rise of community-based groups to argue that environmental concerns have been central to a wide range of American social movements.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Goudie, Andrew
The Human Impact on the Natural Environment MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gougeon, Len
Holmes's Emerson and the Conservative Critique of Realism n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: South Atlantic Review 59.1 (1994): 107-25 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Grabill, James
Poem Rising Out of the Earth and Standing Up in Someone Lynx House Press: Amherst, MA, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gray, Gary G.
Wildlife and People U of Illinois P: Urbana, 1993.
Topics range from aboriginal human-wildlife relationships to consumptive uses of wildlife and wildlife law and policy.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------H-authorsHallowell, Christopher and Walter Levy
Green Perspectives: Thinking and Writing About Nature and the Environment HarperCollins: New York, 1994.
Introduces composition students to ecological issues and traces the history of the environmental movement in America from 1850 through 1993.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hamerstrom, Frances
My Double Life U of Wisconsin P: Madison, 1994.
Life story of pioneering Wisconsin wildlife biologist and author.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hamilton, Joan
Babbitt's Retreat n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Sierra 79.4 (1994): 52+
Hamilton traces Bruce Babbitt's "failed" tenure as Interior Secretary. He's reneged on promises, she argues, and has lost the respect of environmentalists.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hamilton, Bruce
An Enduring Wilderness n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Sierra 79.5 (1994): 46-49
Praises the 1964 Wilderness Act, but argues that eighty million more American acres need protection. Whole ecosytems, especially, need protection.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hansen, Gunnar
Islands at the Edge of Time: A Journey to America's Barrier Islands Island P: Covelo, CA, 1993. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Haslam, Gerald W.
Color Dreams and Other Fictions U of Nevada P: Reno, 1994.
25 stories about rural areas and small towns of California's Central Valley.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Haslam, Gerald W.
The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters U of Nevada P: Reno, 1994.
Nineteen essays "on the landscape, literature, and life in the Great Central Valley of California."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Haslam, Gerald R.
Condor Dreams and Other Fictions U of Nevada P: Reno, 1994.
Twenty-five short stories set in California's Central Valley.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hedin, Robert and Gary Holthaus
The Great Land: Reflections on Alaska U of Arizona P: Tucson, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Heil, Patricia Leeuwenburg
The Frontier Heroine in American Literature n.p.: n.p., 1983.
Series: DAI 43 (1983)
Follows the "development of the frontier heroine in American literature" as the frontier moves west, from the 1800s through "the agrarian novels of the 1900s."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hickey, James E., Jr. and Linda A. Longmire
Environment: Global Programs, Local Solutions Greenwood P: Westport, CT, 1994.
Compilation of conference papers from a 1990 conference at Hofstra University.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hirshfield, Jane
The October Palace HarperCollins: New York, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hochman, Jhan
Silence of the Lambs: A Quiet Bestiary n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 1.2 (1993): 57-79
Critical analysis of the representation of animals in Silence of the Lambs as they are constructed according to anthropocentric fears and desires.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hokanson, Drake
Reflecting a Prairie Town: A Year in Peterson U of Iowa P: Iowa City, 1994.
These photos and essays combine "history, geography, direct observation, climatology, botany, oral history, archaeology, agricultural science, literature, geology, photography, and even a bit of astronomy."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Howarth, William
Thoreau and the Cultural Construction of Nature n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 2.1 (1994): 85-89
A review of three positions on Thoreau's construction of nature.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Howie, John and Schedler, George
Ethical Principles in Contemporary Society Southern Illinois UP: Carbondale, 1994.
Six essayists, including Tom Regan and Louis P. Pojman, address such issues as animal rights, feminism, economic injustice, and racial prejudice.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hoyer, Mark
Mary Austin and Northern Paiute Religion(s) n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: American Nature Writing Newsletter 6.2 (1994): 12-13
In a special issue on Native Americans.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Huber, J. Parker
Writing Nature J. Parker Huber: Brattleboro, 1994.
Annual journal, with essays, bibliography, and news of contemporary nature writers and readers. Order from J. Parker Huber, 35 Western Avenue, Brattleboro, VT 05301.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hunt, Anthony
'The Hump-Backed Flute Player': The Structure of Emptiness in Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 1.2 (1993): 1-23
Explores the relationship of the "Hump-Backed Flute Player" section to the overall work.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hussa, Linda
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Plains Gibbs-Smith: Layton, UT, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hyett, Barbara Helfgott
Schaus Swallowtail Butterfly n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: College English 56.5 (1994): 572
Poem about metamorphosis.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hyett, Barbara Helgott
The River n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: College English 56.5 (1994): 571
Poem about herons by a river.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------J-authorsJay, Tom and Matsen, Brad
Reaching Home: Pacific Salmon, Pacific Home Alaska Northwest Books: n.p., 1994.
Photographs and essays on salmon.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jiggins, Janice
Changing the Boundaries: Women-Centered Perspectives on Population and the Environment Island P: Covelo, CA, 1994.
Examines global population and development policy in relation to gender issues.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Johnston, Barbara R.
Who Pays the Price? The Sociocultural Context of Environmental Crisis Island P: Covelo, CA, 1994.
Topics include human rights and environmental degradation, environmental racism, social justice environmentalism. Covers a wide range of economic and geographic contexts.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jones, Roger
Anteater n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: College English 56.4 (1994): 453
Poem. Explores the consciousness of an anteater.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jones, Roger
Owl n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: College English 56.4 (1994): 452
Poem. Meditation seeking the awareness of owls.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------K-authorsKaempfer, Engelbert
Exotic Pleasures: Fascicle III, Curious Scientific and Medical Observations Southern Illinois UP: n.p., 1994.
This Renaissance classic's "detailed examinations, observations, and explanations offer insight...into... cultural and historical contexts that would otherwise have been lost."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kane, Sean
Wisdom of the Mythtellers Broadview Press: Ontario, 1994.
A study of indigenous myth (Australian Aboriginal, Pacific Northwest, Haida, ancient Celtic, ancient Greek) and its sociological foundations.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kaplan-Maxfield, Thomas
Pan and Nature: Thoreau's Imagination-Based Epistemology n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: DAI 54 (1993)
Argues for "a radical revision" in how we "understand Thoreau's view of himself and the world" through a "comprehensive view" of his epistemological influences.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Karanikas, Marianthe
A Gaian Mirror: Teaching Nature Writing n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: American Nature Writing Newsletter 6.1 (1994): 14
In a special issue on the Gaia hypothesis.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kaufman, Wallace
No Turning Back: Dismantling the Fantasies of Environmental Thinking Basic Books: New York, 1994.
Argues environmentalists have ignored basic principles of science, economics, and human nature.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kaye, Frances W. and Thacker, Robert
'Gone Back to Alberta': Robert Kroesch Rewriting the Great Plains n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Great Plains Quarterly 14.3 (1994): 167-83
Defines the Great Plains and Great Plains literature/studies as inherently postmodern. Postmodernism as a function of the physical place as embodied by Robert Kroetsch.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kaye, Frances W.
International Influences on the Great Plains: An Introduction : n.p., 1994.
Series: Great Plains Quarterly 14.1 (1994): 3-4
Posits that representations of the Great Plains are deeply influenced by cultures from different/other geospheres.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kealy, Thomas
The Science of Gaia n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: American Nature Writing Newsletter 6.1 (1994): 8-9
In a special issue on the Gaia hypothesis.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Keiter, Robert B. and Mark S. Boyce
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Redefining America's Wilderness Heritage Yale UP: New Haven, 1994.
"Here, experts in science, economics, and law discuss the major land management issues of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem." -- Dave Foreman--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kinnell, Galway
Imperfect Thirst Houghton Mifflin: New York, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kircher, Cassie
Ann Zwinger, An Interview n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 1.2 (1993): 123-132
Zwinger talks about the resurgent interest in nature writing, contemporary nature writers, her career, and her own work.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kirtz, Mary K.
Inhabiting the Dangerous Middle of the Space Between: An Intramodernist Reading of Kroetsch's Gone Indian. n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Great Plains Quarterly 14.3 (1994): 207-17
Kroetsch's work as both questioning the reality of his narrative and as developing a Canadian identity of place.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kofalk, Harriet
Food for Thought n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: American Nature Writing Newsletter 6.1 (1994): 13
In a special issue on the Gaia hypothesis.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kolodny, Annette
Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions: Notes Toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: American Literature 64 (1992)
Proposes a redefinition of the American frontier as a multiple array of points of "cultural contact, circumscribed by a particular physical terrain in the process of change because of the forms that contact takes."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Korns, J. Roderic and Morgan, Dale
West from Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of Immigrant Trails Across Utah Utah State UP: Logan, 1994.
"[A] classic history...of the opening of western trails, as told in the words of the immigrants themselves." Revised and updated.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Krall, Florence R.
Ecotone: Wayfaring on the Margins State U of New York P: Albany, 1994.
Autobiographical reflections about the intersections of gender, nature, culture, and work, marginal spaces in which the self can emerge and transform.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kroeber, Karl
Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind Columbia UP: New York, 1994. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kroetsch, Robert
Regionalism, Postmodernism, and Robert Kroetsch: An Introduction n.p.: n.p., 1994.
Series: Great Plains Quarterly 14.3 (1994): 163-66
Postmodern essay on articles about his work. Includes bio.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Krupat, Arno