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Environmental and Nature Writing

Name: Environmental and Nature Writing
Author: Sean Prentiss, Joe Wilkins

A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Sean Prentiss, Joe Wilkins

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Environmental and Nature Writing

A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Sean Prentiss, Joe Wilkins

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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.

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Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Year

2016

ISBN

9781472592552

Edition

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Creative Writing

Index

Languages & Linguistics

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