Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility by Slovic, Scott

Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780874177565)

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Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility by Slovic, Scott

Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility

$24.95
Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility by Slovic, Scott

Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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Scott Slovic has spent his life as a teacher, writer, environmental activist, and leader in the field of ecocritical literary studies. In Going Away to Think, he reflects on the twin motivations of his life--the commitment to do some good in the world and the impulse to enjoy life and participate fully in its most intense moments--and he examines the tension created by his efforts to balance these two poles of his responsibility. These essays reveal the complex inner life of one of this generation's most important environmental critics and literary activists. They range from profound discussions of the role and responsibilities of scholarship to deeply personal ruminations on the impact of family crises and the influence of his wide-ranging travels.

Author: Scott Slovic
ISBN-10: 0874177561
ISBN-13: 9780874177565
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2008
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.18h x 6.08w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/30/2008 pg. 174
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 272
By Scott Slovic
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Scott Slovic is a professor of Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. The author, editor, or coeditor of many books, his research specialties include American environmental literature, the relation between narrative discourse and environmental values, autobiography and environmental experience, and environmental rhetoric. He earned his B.A. from Stanford University (1983) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University (1986, 1990). He was the founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, and has edited ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment since 1995.

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