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 other in a holistic ‚post-pastoral‘ professional practice. Healing the separations of culture and nature represents the next way forward from the current crossroads in the now established field of ecocriticism.
The mountain environment provides a common ground for the diverse modes of engagement and mediation Gifford discusses. By attempting to understand the meaning of Muir’s assertion that ‚going to the mountains is going home, ‚ Gifford points us toward a practice of integrated reading, scholarship, teaching, and writing that is adequate to our environmental crisis.
Terry Gifford
Reconnecting with John Muir
Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice
Reconnecting with John Muir
Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice
Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 216 ● ISBN 9780820336657 ● Dateigröße 1.1 MB ● Verlag University of Georgia Press ● Ort Athens ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2010 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 5513407 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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