Before any wolf packs were established in Oregon, state officials convened a group of stakeholders to come up with a plan to manage the wolves’ impending arrival. In a chapter titled “Depredation” ...she explains that ranchers are often criticized for “their management practices once their animals are released onto summer grazing allotments on public lands,” which may suggest her alignment with those who wholly support the wolves’ return. For all its admirable depth into the topic of wolves in Oregon, Collared only slightly lacks in breadth of coverage about wolves in the West more broadly. Since wolves dispersed naturally into Oregon from surrounding states, there are a number of references both in the text and in footnotes to wolves and wolf management in neighboring states.
Rootedness and Mobility BEILFUSS, MICHAEL J.
The Mississippi quarterly,
06/2015, Letnik:
68, Številka:
3-4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
When he was asked if he saw himself operating within a southern tradition and what he thought of that pigeonholing, Ron Rash responded in the affirmative with the stipulation that he is a Southern ...Appalachian writer and that the best Southern writing transcends the region. He goes on to explain that he wants to follow a tradition of O'Connor, Faulkner, and Welty because those are writers who achieved great regard and a wonderful readership outside the region. The contrast between a global appeal and a national ignorance itself falls squarely within a tradition of southern writing. For a case in point, consider Faulkner's early lack of critical and popular success domestically while Sartre was singing his praises in France. Generally, then, the South is viewed from the outside as a poor despoiled place, never fully recovered or reconstructed. It is depicted as the place of ruined plantations, junkyards, and poverty.
Ironic Pastorals and Beautiful Swamps Beilfuss, Michael J.
Interdisciplinary studies in literature and environment,
09/2015, Letnik:
22, Številka:
3
Journal Article
This dissertation engages a number of currents of environmental criticism and rhetoric in an analysis of the poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of the southeastern United States. I examine conceptions ...of genitive relationships with the environment as portrayed in the work of diverse writers, primarily William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neal Hurston, and Elizabeth Madox Roberts. Southern literature is rarely addressed in ecocritical studies, and to date no work offers an intensive and focused examination of the rhetoric employed in conceptions of environmental ownership. However, southern literature and culture provides fertile ground to trace the creation, development, and communication of environmental values because of its history of agrarianism, slavery, and a literary tradition committed to a sense of place. I argue that the concerns of the two main distinctive threads of environmental literary scholarship—ecopoetics and environmentalism of the poor—neatly overlap in the literature of the South. I employ rhetorical theory and phenomenology to argue that southern authors call into question traditional forms of writing about nature—such as pastoral, the sublime, and wilderness narratives—to reinvent and revitalize those forms in order to develop and communicate modes of reciprocal ownership of natural and cultural environments. These writers not only imagine models of personal and communal coexistence with the environment, but also provide new ways of thinking about environmental justice. The intersection of individual and social relationships with history and nature in Southern literature provides new models for thinking about environmental relationships and how they are communicated. I argue that expressions of environmental ownership and belonging suggest how individuals and groups can better understand their distance and proximity to their environments, which may result in new valuations of personal and social environmental relationships.
This dissertation engages a number of currents of environmental criticism and rhetoric in an analysis of the poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of the southeastern United States. I examine conceptions ...of genitive relationships with the environment as portrayed in the work of diverse writers, primarily William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neal Hurston, and Elizabeth Madox Roberts. Southern literature is rarely addressed in ecocritical studies, and to date no work offers an intensive and focused examination of the rhetoric employed in conceptions of environmental ownership. However, southern literature and culture provides fertile ground to trace the creation, development, and communication of environmental values because of its history of agrarianism, slavery, and a literary tradition committed to a sense of place.
I argue that the concerns of the two main distinctive threads of environmental literary scholarship - ecopoetics and environmentalism of the poor - neatly overlap in the literature of the South. I employ rhetorical theory and phenomenology to argue that southern authors call into question traditional forms of writing about nature - such as pastoral, the sublime, and wilderness narratives - to reinvent and revitalize those forms in order to develop and communicate modes of reciprocal ownership of natural and cultural environments. These writers not only imagine models of personal and communal coexistence with the environment, but also provide new ways of thinking about environmental justice. The intersection of individual and social relationships with history and nature in Southern literature provides new models for thinking about environmental relationships and how they are communicated. I argue that expressions of environmental ownership and belonging suggest how individuals and groups can better understand their distance and proximity to their environments, which may result in new valuations of personal and social environmental relationships.
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