Branch, Michael P.; Slovic, Scott

Isle Reader : Ecocriticism, 1993-2003

Foreword vii Patrick D. Murphy Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Surveying the Emergence of Ecocriticism xiii Michael P. Branch Scott Slovic Part 1: Re-evaluations Aldo Leopold: Aesthetic ``Anthropocentrist'' 3(7) Harold Fromm Kitkitdizze, Zendo, and Place: Gary Snyder as a Reinhabitory Poet 10(12) Katsunori Yamazato Toward a Postmodern Pastoral: The Erotic Landscape in the Work of Gretel Ehrlich 22(11) Gretchen Legler ``The Locus of Compossibility'': Virginia Woolf, Modernism, and Place 33(16) Carol H. Cantrell No Trees Please, We're Jewish 49(23) Andrew Furman The Virtual Crowd: Overpopulation, Space, and Speciesism 72(30) Ursula K. Heise If Thomas Jefferson Had Visited Niagara Falls: The Sublime Wilderness Spectacle in America, 1775--1825 102(22) Gordon M. Sayre Landscapes of Hope and Destruction: Ecological Poetry in Spanish America 124(19) Niall Binns Part 2: Reaching Out to Other Disciplines How Green Was My Advertising: American Ecoconsumerism 143(12) Lisa Lebduska Dominion, Empathy, and Symbiosis: Gender and Anthropocentrism in Romanticism 155(18) Nandita Batra KB in Green: Ecology, Critical Theory, and Kenneth Burke 173(15) Randall Roorda Tales of the Wonderful Hunt 188(15) Ian Marshall Going to Basho's Pine: Wilderness Education for the Twenty-first Century 203(14) R. Edward Grumbine Ten+ (Alternative) Films about American Cities 217(26) Scott Macdonald Part 3: New Theoretical and Practical Paradigms Literary Activism and the Bioregional Agenda 243(15) Paul Lindholdt Ecocriticism: What Is It Good For? 258(24) Robert Kern Toward a Natural History of Reading 282(14) John Tallmadge From Wide Open Spaces to Metropolitan Places: The Urban Challenge to Ecocriticism 296(22) Michael Bennett Home on the Prairie? A Feminist and Postcolonial Reading of Sharon Butala, Di Brandt, and Joy Kogawa 318(27) Cheryl Lousley Notes on Editors and Contributors 345(6) Credits 351(2) Index 353