| Description |
ix, 310 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: What's Nature Worth? -- Inciting Story: Narrative as the Mirror of Audience Values -- Advice and Counsel: Respecting the Sources of Wisdom -- Where the Power Lies: Seeking the Intuitive Language of Story -- Beyond Here Lie Only Dragons: Thoughts on Wild Places and Vigorous Language -- Story as Common Ground -- Making Stories out of Everything: Valuing the Ordinary -- The Building Blocks of Storied Expression: Advice from a Teacher of Writing -- From Image to Event: Considering the Relations between Poetry and Prose as Conveyors of Environmental Values -- Photo and Word: The Power of Suggestion in Visual and Verbal "Language" -- Packing Information in the Form of Story: Viewing Narrative from the Perspective of Science -- Telling It Slant: The Value of Narrative Indirection -- Thriving on Ambiguity: Latency, Indirection, and Narrative -- Concluding Conversation. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Nature in literature.
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Nature in literature. |
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.
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Authors, American. |
| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Subject |
Environmental literature -- Authorship.
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Environmental literature -- Authorship. |
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Environmental literature. |
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Environmental policy -- United States.
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Environmental policy. |
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United States. |
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American literature -- 20th century.
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Natural history -- United States.
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Natural history. |
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Nature -- Literary collections.
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Nature. |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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| Subject |
Natural history -- Authorship.
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Natural history -- Authorship. |
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Narration (Rhetoric) |
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Storytelling.
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Storytelling. |
| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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Literature.
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Interviews.
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| Added Author |
Satterfield, Terre, 1960-
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Slovic, Scott, 1960-
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| ISBN |
0874807905 paperback alkaline paper |
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