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Buell, Lawrence Ingalls was born on June 11, 1939 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Clarence Addison and Marjorie (Henderson) Buell.
( The environmental imagination does not stop short at t...)
The environmental imagination does not stop short at the edge of the woods. Nor should our understanding of it, as Lawrence Buell makes powerfully clear in his new book that aims to reshape the field of literature and environmental studies. Emphasizing the influence of the physical environment on individual and collective perception, his book thus provides the theoretical underpinnings for an ecocriticism now reaching full power, and does so in remarkably clear and concrete ways. Writing for an Endangered World offers a conception of the physical environment--whether built or natural--as simultaneously found and constructed, and treats imaginative representations of it as acts of both discovery and invention. A number of the chapters develop this idea through parallel studies of figures identified with either "natural" or urban settings: John Muir and Jane Addams; Aldo Leopold and William Faulkner; Robinson Jeffers and Theodore Dreiser; Wendell Berry and Gwendolyn Brooks. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, but ranging freely across national borders, his book reimagines city and country as a single complex landscape.
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(Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocri...)
Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. • A critical summary of the emerging discipline of “ecocriticism”. • Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism. • Traces the history of the ecocritical movement from its roots in the 1970s through to its diversification and proliferation today. • Takes account of different ecocritical positions and directions. • Describes major tensions within ecocriticism and addresses major criticisms of the movement. • Looks to the future of ecocriticism, proposing that discourses of the environment should become a permanent part of literary and cultural studies.
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Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and forms are considered in detail. Lawrence Buell combines intellectual history and critical explication, giving equal attention to general trends and to particular works and individuals. His chapters on conversation, religious discourse, catalog rhetoric, and literary travelogue treat intensively topics that have been relatively neglected. His analyses of Ellery Channing's poetry and the use of persona in Emerson and Very are also innovative. In the final section, he offers the first systematic account of the autobiographical tradition in transcendentalist writing. This incisive and sympathetic overview of transcendentalist writing and thought will attract readers interested in American culture, and it will suggest new critical approaches to nonfiction.
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This book is a study of the development of New England literature and literary institutions from the American Revolutionary era to the late nineteenth century. Professor Buell explores the foundations, growth and literary results of the professionalization of the writing vocation. He pays particular attention to the major writers - Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Stowe and Dickinson - but surveys them with a number of lesser-known authors, and explores the conventions, values and institutions which affected them all. Some of the main topics covered include the distinctive features of the Early National and Antebellum periods in New England writing; the importance of certain literary genres (poetry, oratory and religious narrative; etc.); the impact of Puritanism and its values; and the invention of acceptable conventions for portraying the New England landscape and institutions in literature.
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Buell, Lawrence Ingalls was born on June 11, 1939 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Clarence Addison and Marjorie (Henderson) Buell.
AB, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1961. Master of Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1966.
From assistant professor to professor English Oberlin College, Ohio, 1966-1990. John P. Marquand professor English Harvard University, Cambridge, since 1990, dean undergraduate edn, 1992-1996, Powell M. Cabot professor American literature. Director Summer Institute for High School Teachers, National Endowment of the Humanities, Oberlin, 1984-1985.
Visiting professor English University Chicago, 1986. Member faculty Bread Loaf School English, 1987-1988.
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Trustee, officer Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association, 1972-1987. Fellow American Academy Arts & Sciences. Member Modern Language Association, American Studies Association.
Married Phyllis Kimber. Children: Denise, Deirdre.