Artifacts and Illuminations
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Artifacts and Illuminations

Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Artifacts and Illuminations

Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley

About this book

Loren Eiseley (1907–77) is one of the most important American nature writers of the twentieth century and an admired practitioner of creative nonfiction. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Eiseley was a professor of anthropology and a prolific writer and poet who worked to bring an understanding of science to the general public, incorporating religion, philosophy, and science into his explorations of the human mind and the passage of time.
As a writer who bridged the sciences and the humanities, Eiseley is a challenge for scholars locked into rigid disciplinary boundaries. Artifacts and Illuminations, the first full-length collection of critical essays on the writing of Eiseley, situates his work in the genres of creative nonfiction and nature writing. The contributing scholars apply a variety of critical approaches, including ecocriticism and place-oriented studies ranging across prairie, urban, and international contexts. Contributors explore such diverse topics as Eiseley's use of anthropomorphism and Jungian concepts and examine how his work was informed by synecdoche. Long overdue, this collection demonstrates Eiseley's continuing relevance as both a skilled literary craftsman and a profound thinker about the human place in the natural world.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. “ The Bay of Broken Things”
  7. 2. “ Never Going to Cease My Wandering”
  8. 3. “ The Places Below”
  9. 4. Unearthing Urban Nature
  10. 5. Anthropomorphizing the Essay
  11. 6. “ The Borders between Us”
  12. 7. Lessons of an Interdisciplinary Life
  13. 8. Artifact and Idea
  14. 9. The Spirit of Synecdoche
  15. 10. In a Dark Wood
  16. 11. Emerson and Eiseley
  17. 12. Epic Narratives of Evolution
  18. 13. Eiseley and Jung
  19. 14. From the American Great Plains to the Steppes of Russia
  20. Works Cited
  21. Contributors
  22. Index