Xerophilia :Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature
Xerophilia :Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature
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Published:
1 November, 2008
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780896726383 |
| ISBN10 | 089672638X |
| Number Of Pages | 282 |
| Item Weight | 510 g |
| Product Dimensions | 161 x 210 x 26 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Texas Tech Press,U.S. |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
'Xerophilia' is not an unnatural affection for copy machines. Bioregionalist ecocritic Tom Lynch uses the word to indicate an embrace of deserts -- their biotic elements and their inhabitants. Lynch plumbs a sampling of fiction and nonfiction, inviting inhabitants of verdant places to see the exotic differences of arid lands rather than thinking in simplistic terms of culturally-tinted deficits. --Todd Mercer, ForeWord, Nov./Dec., 2008 ""This highly readable volume of literary criticism is based on the hope that literature can help foster sustainable ways of living in the American Southwest... The book makes a strong case for literature's role in achieving sustainable practices without overstating it. Autobiographical reflections, narrative sections, and the inclusion of photographs taken by the author confirm Lynch's own xerophilia, a condition that readers might find themselves catching."" --The Bloomsbury Review, Vol. 29/Issue 2, Mar/Apr 2009
Author's Bio
Born October 11, 1955, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania University of Oregon Ph.D. 1989 University of Oregon M.A. 1982 Indiana University of Pennsylvania B.A. 1977 Awards The O. Marvin Lewis Award for the best nonfiction work appearing in Weber Studies in 1997 for ""The Domestic Air of Wilderness: Henry Thoreau and Joe Polis in the Maine Woods"" Other publications Ed. El Lobo: Readings on the Mexican Gray Wolf (U of Utah P, Oct. 2005) Topic: Mexican gray wolf restoration program Professional meetings regularly attended Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Western Literature Association Capsule bio, au. version: Tom Lynch is an associate professor in the English department at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he teaches ecocriticsm and place-conscious literatures. For six years he taught literature of the Southwest at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, and spent as much time as possible exploring the desert landscapes of the Southwest. His experiences there, both in the classroom and on the trail, provided the inspiration for this book. He is the editor of El Lobo: Readings on the Mexican Gray Wolf (2005), an anthology of essays which addresses the natural and cultural context of the Mexican wolf reintroduction program. Currently, he is at work on an ecocritical and postcolonial study of the literatures of the American West and the Australian Outback. Author's personal statement: For six years I taught Southwestern literature at New Mexico State University. At the same time, I was spending as much time as possible hiking the mountains and deserts of the Southwest. This book brings together those two very different sorts of experiences, the study and teaching of literature and the physical engagement with the places that literature seeks to represent.