Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-302) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: What's Nature Worth? -- Inciting Story: Narrative as the Mirror of Audience Values -- Advice and Counsel: Respecting the Sources of Wisdom -- Where the Power Lies: Seeking the Intuitive Language of Story -- Beyond Here Lie Only Dragons: Thoughts on Wild Places and Vigorous Language -- Story as Common Ground -- Making Stories out of Everything: Valuing the Ordinary -- The Building Blocks of Storied Expression: Advice from a Teacher of Writing -- From Image to Event: Considering the Relations between Poetry and Prose as Conveyors of Environmental Values -- Photo and Word: The Power of Suggestion in Visual and Verbal "Language" -- Packing Information in the Form of Story: Viewing Narrative from the Perspective of Science -- Telling It Slant: The Value of Narrative Indirection -- Thriving on Ambiguity: Latency, Indirection, and Narrative -- Concluding Conversation.
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