Greening the Maple

Canadian Ecocriticism in Context

Ella Soper, Nicholas Bradley

• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781552385463
• eBook ISBN: 9781552385494
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing primarily on written texts. Hailed as one of the most timely and provocative developments in literary and cultural studies of recent decades, it has also been greeted with bewilderment or scepticism by those for whom its aims and methods are unclear. This book seeks to bring into view the development of ecocriticism in the context of Canadian literary studies. Selections include work by Margaret Atwood, Northrop Frye, Sherrill Grace, and Rosemary Sullivan.With contributions by: Margaret AtwoodPamela BantingD.M.R. BentleyCarrie DawsonMisaoDeanAdam DickinsonNorthrop FryeSherrill E. GraceNelson GrayGabriele HelmsLinda HutcheonJenny KerberCheryl LousleyTravis V. MasonLinda MorraHeather MurraySusie O'BrienStephanie PosthumusLaurie RicouElise SalaunCatriona SandilandsRosemary SullivanRita Wong

Index

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Abbey, Edward, 182, 184

ACCUTE. See Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English

ACUTE. See Association of Canadian University Teachers of English

“Acedia,” 407 (Lilburn)

Adelson, Glenn, 444, 445

Aesop’s Fables, 365, 370

Agamben, Giorgio, 449

Age of Iron, 519 (Clements)

agriculture, 109–12, 173, 211, 232, 247–48, 481

ALECC. See Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada

Alexandre Chenevert, 46, 58n12 (Roy)

Allison, Leanne

Being Caribou (film) and, 416, 428, 435n63

caribou, following the, xxxvi–xxxvii, 407–8, 412–17, 419–22, 425, 427–28, 432n12

All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life, 349 (LaDuke)

“America: A Prophecy,” 133 (Blake)

American consumer practices, 171

American Nature Movement, xxxvi, 372

American Nature Writing Newsletter, The, 109

American Revolution, 181

Anahareo (wife of Grey Owl), 390, 392–409 passim

Ancêtres, 305 (Giguère)

Anderson, Benedict, 277, 284, 290

Anderson, Patrick, 4

Anglo-Protestantism, 173

animals. See also beavers; caribou; grizzly bears; reindeer. See also under literature, Canadian

behaviours of, 458

being and knowing, 408–9, 411–29

butchering, 415

cultural representations of, 412

European and Amerindian views on, 419–20

human prejudices against, 417–18

versus human ways of thinking, 420

literature about wild, 409–11

speech and movement of, 418–19

and their culture, 424

and their sense of place, 423–24

unbecoming, 420–21

visual and...

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Ecocriticism North of the Forty-ninth Parallel
• Selections from The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination (1971)
• Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
• La forêt or the Wilderness as Myth (1987)
• Quest for the Peaceable Kingdom: Urban/Rural Codes in Roy, Laurence, and Atwood (1984)
• Women in the Wilderness (1986)
• “Along the Line of Smoky Hills”: Further Steps towards an Ecological Poetics (1990)
• So Big about Green (1991)
• So Unwise about Green (1996)
• Eruptions of Postmodernity: The Postcolonial and the Ecological (1993)
• Contemporary Canadian Poetry from the Edge: An Exploration of Literary Ecocriticism (1995)
• Nature’s Nation, National Natures? Reading Ecocriticism in a Canadian Context (1998)
• Nature Trafficking: Writing and Environment in the Western Canada–U.S. Borderlands
• Calypso Trails: Botanizing on the Bruce Peninsula (2010)
• Knowledge, Power, and Place: Environmental Politics in the Fiction of Matt Cohen and David Adams Richards (2007)
• Canadian Art according to Emily Carr: The Search for Indigenous Expression (2005)
• “Mon pays, ce n’est pas un pays, c’est l’hiver”: Literary Representations of Nature and Ecocritical Thought in Quebec
• Decolonizasian: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature (2008)
• Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
• Political Science: Realism in Roberts’s Animal Stories (1996)
• The “I” in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification and Self-Representation in Grey Owl’s Pilgrims of the Wild (2007)
• The Ontology and Epistemology of Walking: Animality in Karsten Heuer’s Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
• Poetics of the Semiosphere: Pataphysics, Biosemiotics, and Imaginary Solutions for Water (2011)
• Literature and Geology: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary, Comparative Ecocriticism
• The Dwelling Perspective in English-Canadian Drama
• Afterword: Ecocritical Futures
• Appendix: Taking Flight: From Little Grey Birds to The Goose
• Notes on the Contributors
• Index