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Writing Environments
Including interviews with several of America's leading environmental writers, this volume addresses the intersections between writing and nature.
Writing Environments addresses the intersections between writing and nature through interviews with some of America's leading environmental writers. Those interviewed include Rick Bass, Cheryll Glotfelty, Annette Kolodny, Max Oelschlaeger, Simon J. Ortiz, David Quammen, Janisse Ray, Scott Russell Sanders, Edward O. Wilson, and Ann H. Zwinger. From the standpoints of activists, scientists, naturalists, teachers, and highly visible writers, the interviewees consider how different environments have influenced them, how their writing affects environments, and the ways readers experience environments. The interviews are followed by critical responses from writing scholars. This diverse range of voices speaks lucidly and captivatingly about topics such as place, writing, teaching, politics, race, and culture, and how these overlap in many complex ways.
“This is not a book on how or where writers find places to write, but one produced by a deeply concerned group of writers who feel an emotional attachment to the environment or nature and whose beliefs, studies, research, and personal experiences are set out for us to scrutinize and evaluate according to our personal, distinctive set of definitions and guidelines and how we feel about the subject.” — Technical Communication
“Dobrin and Keller offer an intriguing approach to the topic of how writers and their texts influence and are influenced by their environments.” — CHOICE
"These fine interviews broaden our knowledge of environmental philosophy. This book deals with the most intellectually important of all topics concerning scholars and intellectuals—the survival of our species and the biosphere."— Paul J. Lindholdt, coeditor of Cascadia Protecting an International Ecosystem
"The interviewees and the respondents consistently reward the reader with clear, provocative insights. The diverse voices keep things flowing and provide shifting perspectives on the recurrent questions." — Brad Monsma, author of The Sespe Southern California's Last Free River
The interviewees include Rick Bass, Cheryll Glotfelty, Annette Kolodny, Max Oelschlaeger, Simon J. Ortiz, David Quammen, Janisse Ray, Scott Russell Sanders, Edward O. Wilson, and Ann H. Zwinger.
Contributors include Kaye Adkins, Sidney I. Dobrin, Julie Drew, Elizabeth A. Flynn, Annie Merrill Ingram, Christopher J. Keller, M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Lezlie Laws, Scott Richard Lyons, Sushil K. Oswal, Eric Otto, Derek Owens, Malea Powell, Randall Roorda, Christopher Schroeder, J. Blake Scott, Dean Swinford, Christian R. Weisser, and Lynn Worsham.
Writing Environments addresses the intersections between writing and nature through interviews with some of America's leading environmental writers. Those interviewed include Rick Bass, Cheryll Glotfelty, Annette Kolodny, Max Oelschlaeger, Simon J. Ortiz, David Quammen, Janisse Ray, Scott Russell Sanders, Edward O. Wilson, and Ann H. Zwinger. From the standpoints of activists, scientists, naturalists, teachers, and highly visible writers, the interviewees consider how different environments have influenced them, how their writing affects environments, and the ways readers experience environments. The interviews are followed by critical responses from writing scholars. This diverse range of voices speaks lucidly and captivatingly about topics such as place, writing, teaching, politics, race, and culture, and how these overlap in many complex ways.
“This is not a book on how or where writers find places to write, but one produced by a deeply concerned group of writers who feel an emotional attachment to the environment or nature and whose beliefs, studies, research, and personal experiences are set out for us to scrutinize and evaluate according to our personal, distinctive set of definitions and guidelines and how we feel about the subject.” — Technical Communication
“Dobrin and Keller offer an intriguing approach to the topic of how writers and their texts influence and are influenced by their environments.” — CHOICE
"These fine interviews broaden our knowledge of environmental philosophy. This book deals with the most intellectually important of all topics concerning scholars and intellectuals—the survival of our species and the biosphere."— Paul J. Lindholdt, coeditor of Cascadia Protecting an International Ecosystem
"The interviewees and the respondents consistently reward the reader with clear, provocative insights. The diverse voices keep things flowing and provide shifting perspectives on the recurrent questions." — Brad Monsma, author of The Sespe Southern California's Last Free River
The interviewees include Rick Bass, Cheryll Glotfelty, Annette Kolodny, Max Oelschlaeger, Simon J. Ortiz, David Quammen, Janisse Ray, Scott Russell Sanders, Edward O. Wilson, and Ann H. Zwinger.
Contributors include Kaye Adkins, Sidney I. Dobrin, Julie Drew, Elizabeth A. Flynn, Annie Merrill Ingram, Christopher J. Keller, M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Lezlie Laws, Scott Richard Lyons, Sushil K. Oswal, Eric Otto, Derek Owens, Malea Powell, Randall Roorda, Christopher Schroeder, J. Blake Scott, Dean Swinford, Christian R. Weisser, and Lynn Worsham.
389 pages, Paperback
First published January 6, 2005
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July 24, 2019
Great interviews with "big wigs" in the environmental humanities -- of course my favorite sections involved Rick Bass and Janisse Ray. Lots of good thoughts here about nature writing and teaching!
July 16, 2010
I read the intro and I'm reading the sections on/by Quammen, Ray, Oelschlaeger, Ortiz, and Sanders. Based on the intro, those were the ones that interested me. I'm more interested in the stuff about how place influences us, not so much on things generally seen as environmentalism or nature writing I guess. (Although I am sort of wondering if I'll eventually find that is an artificial or otherwise crappy division I am making.)
I was surprised in the intro to hear the editors sort of misgivings about how they paired (originally) oral interviews with written responses and how this created a sort of imbalance. I got the sense that there were some heated exchanges. As I read, I'm looking for those. I'm seeing a few responses that I could see being sort of feather-ruffling, let's say. And some of them seem kinda dirty. Not sure what to do with this, but it is interesting.
I was surprised in the intro to hear the editors sort of misgivings about how they paired (originally) oral interviews with written responses and how this created a sort of imbalance. I got the sense that there were some heated exchanges. As I read, I'm looking for those. I'm seeing a few responses that I could see being sort of feather-ruffling, let's say. And some of them seem kinda dirty. Not sure what to do with this, but it is interesting.
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