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1 online resource (vi, 343 pages) |
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Introduction: Heraclitean fire, Bakhtiniam laughter, and the limits of literary judgement / Peter Quigley -- Foreword I: The roots of Abbey's social critique / Edward S. Twining -- Foreword II: Magpie / SueEllen Campbell -- I'm a humanist: the poetic past in Desert Solitaire / David J. Rothman -- Who is the Lone Ranger?: Edward Abbey as philosopher / David Rothenberg -- Nativity, domesticity, and exile in Edward Abbey's One True Home / Tom Lynch -- Rage against the machine: Edward Abbey and Neo-Luddite thought / Paul Lindholdt -- Edward Abbey's inadvertent Postmodernism: theory, autobiography, and politics / William Chaloupka -- Abbey as anarchist / Harold Alderman -- Getting the desert into a book: Nature writing and the problem of representation in a postmodern world / Claire Lawrence -- Surviving Doom and Gloom: Edward Abbey's desert comedies / Rebecca Raglon -- Nietzschean themes in the works of Edward Abbey / Steve Norwick -- Edward Abbey's Cow / Barbara Barney Nelson -- Edward Abbey and Gender / Paul T. Bryant -- The life of the author: Emerson, Foucault, and the reading of Edward Abbey's journals / David Copland Morris -- From the banks of the Illisus to the Arches of Utah: Edward Abbey as noble rhetorician / Bryan L. Moore -- Biocentrism and Green Existentialism: Edward Abbey's conflicting conceptualizations of nature / Werner Bigell -- The politics and aesthetics of a hopeful anarchism: Edward Abbey's postmodern Angelic Demonology / Peter Quigley -- The politics of leisure: industrial tourism in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire / James A. Papa, Jr |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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| Subject |
Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989 fast |
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Environmental protection in literature.
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Environmental policy in literature.
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Deserts in literature.
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Nature in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Deserts in literature
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Environmental policy in literature
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Environmental protection in literature
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Literature
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Nature in literature
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West (U.S.) -- In literature
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Utah -- In literature
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West United States
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Utah
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Quigley, Peter, 1951-
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| LC no. |
98011872 |
| ISBN |
058511241X |
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9780585112411 |
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