Saving Grace of America's Green Jeremiad (eBook)

John Gatta (Autor)

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2022
164 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2406-2 (ISBN)

Infos

American nature writing characteristically embodies an appreciative, lyrical evocation of the natural world. But often, too, green-disposed authors have been moved to dramatize diverse, anthropogenic perils to environmental health. John Gatta freshly reveals how this dark yet graced and hopeful strain of environmental literature enlarges upon a jeremiad tradition of prophecy inherited from Puritan New England. Across successive historical periods, such expression has assumed a rich variety of American form--as creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, or film documentary. In the spirit of ancient Hebrew prophecy, jeremiads-unlike diatribes--reach beyond effusions of doom and gloom toward the prospect of change through a conversion of heart. Accordingly, the new climate fiction and much other writing steeped in what Gatta terms this "e;Green Jeremiad"e; tradition not only warn of material threats to life's flourishing, but may also look to stir spiritual understanding and renewal.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Environment and Society
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: climate change • Ecocriticism • ecotheology • Environmental Disaster • Nature writing
• ISBN-10: 1-7936-2406-2 / 1793624062
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7936-2406-2 / 9781793624062