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Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability. It considers landscape as narrative, and applies theoretical frameworks in eco-phenomenology and ecosemiotics to literary, historical, and philosophical study of the relationship between text and landscape. It considers in particular examples and lessons to be drawn from case studies of medieval and Native American cultures, to illustrate in an applied way the promise of environmental humanities today. In doing so, it highlights an environmental future for the humanities, on the cutting edge of cultural endeavor today.
Alfred Kentigern Siewers is associate professor of English and founding coordinator of the Nature and Human Communities (now Place Studies) Initiative at Bucknell University.
ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction - Song, Tree, and Spring: Environmental Meaning and the Environmental Humanities Part One: BackgroundsChapter 2: The Ecopoetics of Creation: Genesis LXX 1-3 By Alfred Kentigern SiewersChapter 3: Place and Sign: Locality as a Foundation for Ecosemiotics By Timo MaranChapter 4: Learning from Temple Grandin, or, Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes after the Subject By Cary WolfePart Two: Medieval NaturesChapter 5: “The Secret Folds of Nature”: Eriugena's Expansive Concept of Nature By Dermot MoranChapter 6: The Nature of Miracles in Early Irish Saints’ Lives By John CareyChapter 7: Inventing with Animals in the Middle Ages By Jeffrey Jerome CohenPart Three: Re-Negotiating Native NaturesChapter 8: The Yua as Logoi By Fr Michael OleksaChapter 9: Intersubjectivity with “Nature” in Plains Indian Vision-seeking By Kathryn W. ShanleyChapter 10: The Experience of the World as the Experience of the Self: Smooth Rocks in a River Archipelago By Katherine M. FaullChapter 11: Human Geographies and Landscapes of the Divine in Ibero-American Borderlands By Cynthia RaddingChapter 12: Call and Response: The Human/Non-Human Encounter in Linda Hogan’s SolarStormsBy Sarah ReeseSuggested Reading Bibliography Index About the Contributors