Amazon.com description: Product Description: Nature is the most radical representative for the Other, and our encounter with nature the most sharply marked experience of Otherness. Literature, by its very nature, is an active force in our struggle with the natural Otherness, enabling us to turn the confrontation into identity. In this books 16 international scholars and two international writers investigate the visions and the intricacies of our confrontation and integration of nature through art and literature.