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Tables of Contents for The Isle Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
vii
Patrick D. Murphy
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction: Surveying the Emergence of Ecocriticism
xiii
Michael P. Branch
Scott Slovic
Part 1: Re-evaluations
Aldo Leopold: Aesthetic ``Anthropocentrist''
3
7
Harold Fromm
Kitkitdizze, Zendo, and Place: Gary Snyder as a Reinhabitory Poet
10
12
Katsunori Yamazato
Toward a Postmodern Pastoral: The Erotic Landscape in the Work of Gretel Ehrlich
22
11
Gretchen Legler
``The Locus of Compossibility'': Virginia Woolf, Modernism, and Place
33
16
Carol H. Cantrell
No Trees Please, We're Jewish
49
23
Andrew Furman
The Virtual Crowd: Overpopulation, Space, and Speciesism
72
30
Ursula K. Heise
If Thomas Jefferson Had Visited Niagara Falls: The Sublime Wilderness Spectacle in America, 1775--1825
102
22
Gordon M. Sayre
Landscapes of Hope and Destruction: Ecological Poetry in Spanish America
124
19
Niall Binns
Part 2: Reaching Out to Other Disciplines
How Green Was My Advertising: American Ecoconsumerism
143
12
Lisa Lebduska
Dominion, Empathy, and Symbiosis: Gender and Anthropocentrism in Romanticism
155
18
Nandita Batra
KB in Green: Ecology, Critical Theory, and Kenneth Burke
173
15
Randall Roorda
Tales of the Wonderful Hunt
188
15
Ian Marshall
Going to Basho's Pine: Wilderness Education for the Twenty-first Century
203
14
R. Edward Grumbine
Ten+ (Alternative) Films about American Cities
217
26
Scott Macdonald
Part 3: New Theoretical and Practical Paradigms
Literary Activism and the Bioregional Agenda
243
15
Paul Lindholdt
Ecocriticism: What Is It Good For?
258
24
Robert Kern
Toward a Natural History of Reading
282
14
John Tallmadge
From Wide Open Spaces to Metropolitan Places: The Urban Challenge to Ecocriticism
296
22
Michael Bennett
Home on the Prairie? A Feminist and Postcolonial Reading of Sharon Butala, Di Brandt, and Joy Kogawa
318
27
Cheryl Lousley
Notes on Editors and Contributors
345
6
Credits
351
2
Index
353