Patrick D. Murphy is Director of the Graduate Program in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Among his other books are Understanding Gary Synder; Critical Essays on Gary Synder; Critical Essays on American Modernism; and Essentials of the Theory of Fiction. He is also founding editor of the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

• Acknowledgments Preface I. 1. Prolegomenon for an Ecofeminist Dialogics2. Ground, Pivot, Motion: Ecofeminist Theory, Dialogics, and Literary Practice3. Voicing Another Nature4. Reconceiving the Relations of Woman and Nature, Nature and Culture: Contemporary Environmental Literature by Women5. Sex-Typing the Planet: Gaia Imagery and the Problem of Subverting Patriarchy II. 6. Somagrams in An/Other Tongue: Patricia Hampl's "Resort"7. Ecology and Love: The Spiderwebs of Joy Harjo8. "A Mountain Always Practices in Every Place": Climbing over Transcendence9. Pivots Instead of Centers: Postmodern Spirituality in Gary Snyder and Ursula K. Le Guin III. 10. Let the Survivors of Contact Speak: In the Canon and in the Classroom11. Centering the Other: Trickster Midwife Pedagogy12. The Present Is to Nature as the Past Is to Culture as the Future Is to Agency13. Simply Uncontrollable, Or Steaming Open the Envelope of Ideology14. Afterword15. Appendix: Dialectics of Dialgoics: Method and Message in the Classroom Notes Bibliography Index

"This is postmodern theory at its best—theory that resists totalizing language and closure—theory that always points back to the text, the creative well-spring of philosophy and practice."Murphy is vibrant, insistent, and responsible as a scholar, literary critic, philosopher, and pedagogical theorist. He is a sharp deconstructionist, but also a strong postmodern optimist."In this collection of essays, he acts as a web-weaver and a border crosser—moving back and forth between the camps of philosophy, literary criticism, feminist theory and pedagogical theory—linking strands of thought from such diverse realms as Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deep Ecology, postmodern theory, French Feminism, Bakhtinian dialogics and ecofeminism." — Gretchen Legler, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Patrick D. Murphy is Director of the Graduate Program in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Among his other books are Understanding Gary Synder; Critical Essays on Gary Synder; Critical Essays on American Modernism; and Essentials of the Theory of Fiction. He is also founding editor of the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

• Acknowledgments Preface I. 1. Prolegomenon for an Ecofeminist Dialogics2. Ground, Pivot, Motion: Ecofeminist Theory, Dialogics, and Literary Practice3. Voicing Another Nature4. Reconceiving the Relations of Woman and Nature, Nature and Culture: Contemporary Environmental Literature by Women5. Sex-Typing the Planet: Gaia Imagery and the Problem of Subverting Patriarchy II. 6. Somagrams in An/Other Tongue: Patricia Hampl's "Resort"7. Ecology and Love: The Spiderwebs of Joy Harjo8. "A Mountain Always Practices in Every Place": Climbing over Transcendence9. Pivots Instead of Centers: Postmodern Spirituality in Gary Snyder and Ursula K. Le Guin III. 10. Let the Survivors of Contact Speak: In the Canon and in the Classroom11. Centering the Other: Trickster Midwife Pedagogy12. The Present Is to Nature as the Past Is to Culture as the Future Is to Agency13. Simply Uncontrollable, Or Steaming Open the Envelope of Ideology14. Afterword15. Appendix: Dialectics of Dialgoics: Method and Message in the Classroom Notes Bibliography Index

"This is postmodern theory at its best—theory that resists totalizing language and closure—theory that always points back to the text, the creative well-spring of philosophy and practice."Murphy is vibrant, insistent, and responsible as a scholar, literary critic, philosopher, and pedagogical theorist. He is a sharp deconstructionist, but also a strong postmodern optimist."In this collection of essays, he acts as a web-weaver and a border crosser—moving back and forth between the camps of philosophy, literary criticism, feminist theory and pedagogical theory—linking strands of thought from such diverse realms as Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deep Ecology, postmodern theory, French Feminism, Bakhtinian dialogics and ecofeminism." — Gretchen Legler, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Patrick D. Murphy is Director of the Graduate Program in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Among his other books are Understanding Gary Synder; Critical Essays on Gary Synder; Critical Essays on American Modernism; and Essentials of the Theory of Fiction. He is also founding editor of the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

• Acknowledgments Preface I. 1. Prolegomenon for an Ecofeminist Dialogics2. Ground, Pivot, Motion: Ecofeminist Theory, Dialogics, and Literary Practice3. Voicing Another Nature4. Reconceiving the Relations of Woman and Nature, Nature and Culture: Contemporary Environmental Literature by Women5. Sex-Typing the Planet: Gaia Imagery and the Problem of Subverting Patriarchy II. 6. Somagrams in An/Other Tongue: Patricia Hampl's "Resort"7. Ecology and Love: The Spiderwebs of Joy Harjo8. "A Mountain Always Practices in Every Place": Climbing over Transcendence9. Pivots Instead of Centers: Postmodern Spirituality in Gary Snyder and Ursula K. Le Guin III. 10. Let the Survivors of Contact Speak: In the Canon and in the Classroom11. Centering the Other: Trickster Midwife Pedagogy12. The Present Is to Nature as the Past Is to Culture as the Future Is to Agency13. Simply Uncontrollable, Or Steaming Open the Envelope of Ideology14. Afterword15. Appendix: Dialectics of Dialgoics: Method and Message in the Classroom Notes Bibliography Index

"This is postmodern theory at its best—theory that resists totalizing language and closure—theory that always points back to the text, the creative well-spring of philosophy and practice."Murphy is vibrant, insistent, and responsible as a scholar, literary critic, philosopher, and pedagogical theorist. He is a sharp deconstructionist, but also a strong postmodern optimist."In this collection of essays, he acts as a web-weaver and a border crosser—moving back and forth between the camps of philosophy, literary criticism, feminist theory and pedagogical theory—linking strands of thought from such diverse realms as Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deep Ecology, postmodern theory, French Feminism, Bakhtinian dialogics and ecofeminism." — Gretchen Legler, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis