John Gatta

The Saving Grace of America's Green Jeremiad (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

American nature writing characteristically embodies an appreciative, lyrical evocation of the natural world. But often, too, green-disposed authors have been moved to dramatize diverse, anthropogenic perils to environmental health. John Gatta freshly reveals how this dark yet graced and hopeful strain of environmental literature enlarges upon a jeremiad tradition of prophecy inherited from Puritan New England. Across successive historical periods, such expression has assumed a rich variety of American form--as creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, or film documentary. In the spirit of ancient Hebrew prophecy, jeremiads-unlike diatribes--reach beyond effusions of doom and gloom toward the prospect of change through a conversion of heart. Accordingly, the new climate fiction and much other writing steeped in what Gatta terms this "Green Jeremiad" tradition not only warn of material threats to life's flourishing, but may also look to stir spiritual understanding and renewal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765184011
• Artikelnr.: 74398116

Autorenporträt

John Gatta is professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut and University of the South, Sewanee.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Ancient Jeremiah's New World Progeny
Chapter 2. Toward the Jeremiad Bloom of Silent Spring
Chapter 3. From the Blustery Dawn of Earth Day to Earth First!
Chapter 4 Prophesying the End of Nature
Chapter 5. Saving Truths of the New "CliFi" Jeremiad
Conclusion