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13) The tree
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The Tree, one of John Fowles' few works of nonfiction. First published a generation ago, it is a provocative meditation on the connection between the natural world and human creativity, and a powerful argument against taming the wild. In it, Fowles recounts his own childhood in England and describes how he rebelled against his Edwardian father{u0092}s obsession with the {u0093}quantifiable yield{u0094} of well-pruned fruit trees and came to prize...
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"Examining the writings and life of Virginia Woolf, In the Hollow of the Wave looks at how Woolf treated "nature" as a deliberate discourse that shaped her way of thinking about the self and the environment and her strategies for challenging the imbalances of power in her own culture--all of which remain valuable in the framing of our discourse about nature today. Bonnie Kime Scott explores Woolf's uses of nature, including her satire of scientific...
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"From Origin to Ecology examines Merwin's poetry for its most prevalent topic - nature. It uncovers a poet who is actively seeking to understand his and his society's role toward a nature which appears ever-diminishing. From the study, we also learn of the profound feeling of a poet for the green world, perhaps all the more profound because of the possibility of its irretrievable loss." "Frazier examines Merwin's poetry with regard to ecocriticism,...
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