Saving Grace of America's Green Jeremiad EPUB
by John Gatta
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American nature writing characteristically embodies an appreciative, lyrical evocation of the natural world. But often, too, green-disposed authors have been moved to dramatize diverse, anthropogenic perils to environmental health. John Gatta freshly reveals how this dark yet graced and hopeful strain of environmental literature enlarges upon a jeremiad tradition of prophecy inherited from Puritan New England. Across successive historical periods, such expression has assumed a rich variety of American form--as creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, or film documentary. In the spirit of ancient Hebrew prophecy, jeremiadsunlike diatribes--reach beyond effusions of doom and gloom toward the prospect of change through a conversion of heart. Accordingly, the new climate fiction and much other writing steeped in what Gatta terms this ';Green Jeremiad' tradition not only warn of material threats to life's flourishing, but may also look to stir spiritual understanding and renewal.
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- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:01/04/2022
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- ISBN:9781793624062
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- Format:EPUB
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