Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place,
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'The twenty-four original essays here are written by an outstanding selection of international scholars. The range of bioregions covered is global and includes such diverse places as British Columbia’s Meldrum Creek and Italy’s Po River Valley, the Arctic and the Outback. There are even forays into cyberspace and outer space. In their comprehensive introduction, the editors map the terrain of the bioregional movement, including its history and potential to inspire and invigorate place-based and environmental literary criticism. Responding to bioregional tenets, this volume is divided into four sections. The essays in the “Reinhabiting” section narrate experiments in living-in-place and restoring damaged environments. The “Rereading” essays practice bioregional literary criticism, both by examining texts with strong ties to bioregional paradigms and by opening other, less-obvious texts to bioregional analysis. In “Reimagining,” the essays push bioregionalism to evolve—by expanding its corpus of texts, coupling its perspectives with other approaches, or challenging its core constructs. Essays in the “Renewal” section address bioregional pedagogy, beginning with local habitat studies and concluding with musings about the Internet. In response to the environmental crisis, we must reimagine our relationship to the places we inhabit. This volume shows how literature and literary studies are fundamental tools to such a reimagining' (Publisher websire).

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University of Georgia Press , 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Figures of Life: Beverley Farmer's The Seal Woman as an Australian Bioregional Novel, Ruth Blair , single work criticism (p. 164-180)
Seasons and Nomads: Reflections on Bioregionalism in Australia, Libby Robin , single work criticism (p. 278-294)

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