Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-487) and index.
Contents:
Resources for teaching environmental literature : a selective guide / Mark C. Long. Backgrounds. Introduction: Teaching environmental literature, a trek through the field / Fred Waage -- Varieties of environmental literature in North America / Patrick Murphy -- Ecocriticism as praxis / David Mazel -- Teaching ecocritical theory / Ursula K. Heise -- "I still need revolution" : cultivating ecofeminist readers / Catriona Mortimer-Sandlands -- Thinking with animals: teaching animal studies based literature courses / Karla Armbruster -- Mapping North American environmental literature. Mexican and Chicana/o environmental writing: unearthing and inhabiting / Jorge Marcone, Priscilla Solis Ybarra -- Abandoning the fort : cultural differences and biodiversity in Canadian literature and criticism / Pamela Banting -- United States environmental literature before the twentieth century / Daniel J. Philippon -- United States environmental literature of the twentieth century and beyond / Annie Merrill Ingram -- Teaching North American environmental literature. Introduction: A range of approaches / Larid Christensen -- Disciplinary approaches. Teaching American modernism as environmental writing / Anne Raine -- Teaching post World War II American poetry as environmental literature / Bernard Quetchenbach -- "Ready to come home": teaching African American literature as environmental literature / Jeffrey Myers -- For the sake of the land and all people: Teaching American Indian literature from an environmental justice perspective / Joni Adamson -- Teaching environmental literature in a world comparatist context / Scott Slovic -- Asking ecocritical questions / Sue Ellen Campbell -- "Machine in the garden" : using electronic portfolios to teach environmental literature / Katherine R. Chandler -- Giving voice to the novice authority : Silent Spring in the composition classroom / Cheryl C. Smith -- Interdisciplinary approaches. Teaching environmental literature on the planet indivisible / Glen A. Love -- Predators in literature / Barbara Barney Nelson -- Reading the landscape : prairie education through American literature / Mary Stark, Stephen R. Johnson -- East Asian influence on recent North American nature writing / David Landis Barnhill -- Environmental justice issues in literature and film : from toxic to the sustainable / Cheryl J. Fish -- Ethnic ecoethics : multicultural environmental philosophy and literature / William Slaymaker -- Teaching the literature of agriculture / Christopher J. Cobb -- Ecofeminist Canadian literature / Alanna F. Bondar -- Place based approaches. Place based courses and teaching literature outdoors : an overview / Hal Crimmel -- Finding home in Nevada? : Teaching the literature of place, on location / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Teaching place and community history to undergraduates / John R. Harris -- Children of the asphalt : teaching the nature of Los Angeles literature / Scott Bryson -- Trouble with texts; or, green cultural studies in Texas / Stacy Alaimo -- Living as equipment for literature : the summer environmental writing program / Randall Roorda -- Experientially teaching Canadian travel literature on the trail and in the classroom / Bob Henderson -- "Come to paradise, while it lasts" : teaching literary ecology on Mexico's Costa Alegre / Jerry Keir. -- Resources for teaching environmental literature : a selective guide / Mark C. Long.
Series:
Modern Language Association of America options for teaching ; 22
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