- 320 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
Offering guidance on writing poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, Environmental and Nature Writing is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing about the environment in a wide range of genres. With discussion questions and writing prompts throughout, Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writers' Guide and Anthology covers such topics as:
· The history of writing about the environment
· Image, description and metaphor
· Environmental journalism, poetry, and fiction
· Researching, revising and publishing
· Styles of nature writing, from discovery to memoir to polemic
The book also includes an anthology, offering inspiring examples of nature writing in all of the genres covered by the book, including work by: John Daniel, Camille T. Dungy, David Gessner, Jennifer Lunden, Erik Reece, David Treuer, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Alyson Hagy, Bonnie Nadzam, Lydia Peelle, Benjamin Percy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Nikky Finney, Juan Felipe Herrera, Major Jackson, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, G.E. Patterson, Natasha Trethewey, and many more.
· The history of writing about the environment
· Image, description and metaphor
· Environmental journalism, poetry, and fiction
· Researching, revising and publishing
· Styles of nature writing, from discovery to memoir to polemic
The book also includes an anthology, offering inspiring examples of nature writing in all of the genres covered by the book, including work by: John Daniel, Camille T. Dungy, David Gessner, Jennifer Lunden, Erik Reece, David Treuer, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Alyson Hagy, Bonnie Nadzam, Lydia Peelle, Benjamin Percy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Nikky Finney, Juan Felipe Herrera, Major Jackson, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, G.E. Patterson, Natasha Trethewey, and many more.
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Information
Contents
Part
I
An
Introduction
to
Nature
and
Environmental
Writing
1
1
The
Trailhead
3
Relevant
readings
3
Free
write
3
Vignette
4
Motivations: The
physical
world,
the
internal
world
5
Nature
and
environmental
writing
7
The
trailhead
10
Exercises
11
Prompts
11
2
A Short
History
of
Nature
and
Environmental
Writing
13
Relevant
readings
14
Free
write
14
Vignette
14
A
short
history
of
nature
and
environmental
writing
16
The
prehistory
of
nature
and
environmental
writing
17
The
natural
history
19
Pastoral
narratives
20
Adventure
narratives
21
Enter: Environmental
writing
22
Wilderness
and
preservation
narratives
23
Agrarian
narratives
25
Science
and
nature
narratives
26
Environmental
justice
narratives
27
Climate
change
narratives
28
Postcolonial
narratives
29
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Also Available from Bloomsbury
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part I An Introduction to Nature and Environmental Writing
- Part II The Craft of Nature and Environmental Writing
- Part III Nature and Environmental Writing Anthology
- Biographies
- Permissions
- Index