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What is Eco Criticism?

Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology What we read influences how we interact with the natural world. Ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment,  an earth-focused view of literary scholarship. The Association for the … Continue reading

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Residencies for Nature and Outdoors Writers

Spring Creek – University of Oregon – writer in residence program Mesa Refuge, Point Reyes Station, California – writer’s residency Taos Summer Writer’s Conference – fiction and non-fiction writing conference Voices of the Wilderness  – artist’s residency Island Institute, Sitka, Alaska – resident fellowships … Continue reading

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Study Resources :: The Environmental Movement

Evolution of Conservation Movement in the United States of America Significant Authors: Edward Abbey Rachel Carson John Muir Gary Snyder Add your suggestions  — other authors whose writings have shaped the conservation movement in the United States.  Use  the comments … Continue reading

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Environmental Issues and Nature Writing :: Self Directed Study

Web resources on Nature Writing  — study on your own with a syllabus and course materials compiled by top universities. MIT — Massachusetts Institute of Technology — offers a free online course Writing About Nature and Environmental Issues.  The University … Continue reading

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Environmental Movement in China

Photos from China— Gulangyu Island where cars are not permitted …… and Shanghai, where cars rule. China’s Emerging Environmental Movement – Environment 360

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Nature Writing Before Thoreau

Before Henry David Thoreau, American environmental nonfiction is represented in the works of writers such as John Smith, Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles -1632 William Wood, New England’s Prospect – 1639 John Josselyn, Account of Two … Continue reading

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