TY - BOOK AU - Gifford,Terry ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Reconnecting with John Muir: essays in post-pastoral practice AV - PS228.N39 G54 2006eb U1 - 810.9/36 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Athens, Ga. PB - University of Georgia Press KW - Muir, John, KW - American literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Nature in literature KW - Environmentalism KW - United States KW - History KW - Pastoral literature, American KW - Mountaineering in literature KW - Ecocriticism KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194) and index; Keeping faith with the source -- Muir as practitioner of the post-pastoral -- Muir's multiple discourses -- Teaching environmentalism through writing -- Muir's mode of reading John Ruskin -- Rick Bass's fiber as a post-pastoral georgic -- Walking into narrative scholarship -- Teaching post-pastoral poetry of landscape -- Tests of character in Cold Mountain -- Muir's fourfold concept of the mountaineer -- Toward a post-pastoral mountaineering literature -- Post-pastoral practice at the crossroads of ecocriticism; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10375923 ER -