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Reconnecting with John Muir: Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice
Terry Gifford
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Hardcover. The mountain environment provides a common ground for the diverse modes of engagement and mediation. By attempting to understand the meaning of Muir's assertion that "going to the mountains is going home," the author points us toward a practice of integrated reading, scholarship, teaching, and writing that is adequate to our environmental crisis. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: RN; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
Advancing for the first time the concept of ""post-pastoral practice,"" ""Reconnecting with John Muir"" springs from Terry Gifford's understanding of the great naturalist as an exemplar of integrated, environmentally conscious knowing and writing. Just as the discourses of science and the arts were closer in Muir's day - in part, arguably, because of Muir - it is time we learned from ecology to recognize how integrated our own lives are as readers, students, scholars, teachers, and writers. When we defy the institutional separations, purposely straying from narrow career tracks, the activities of reading, scholarship, teaching, and writing can inform each ... Read more
Advancing for the first time the concept of ""post-pastoral practice,"" ""Reconnecting with John Muir"" springs from Terry Gifford's understanding of the great naturalist as an exemplar of integrated, environmentally conscious knowing and writing. Just as the discourses of science and the arts were closer in Muir's day - in part, arguably, because of Muir - it is time we learned from ecology to recognize how integrated our own lives are as readers, students, scholars, teachers, and writers. When we defy the institutional separations, purposely straying from narrow career tracks, the activities of reading, scholarship, teaching, and writing can inform each ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820327969
SKU
V9780820327969
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About Terry Gifford
Terry Gifford is a former Reader in Literature and Environment at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Green Voices and Pastoral. He has also edited the complete works of John Muir.
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