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What's nature worth? : narrative expressions of environmental values
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- Creator
- edited by Terre Satterfield and Scott Slovic
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- x, 310 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780874807905, 0874807905
- OCLC
- ocm53145266
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index.
- Introduction: What's Nature Worth? -- Inciting Story: Narrative as the Mirror of Audience Values -- Advice and Counsel: Respecting the Sources of Wisdom -- Where the Power Lies: Seeking the Intuitive Language of Story -- Beyond Here Lie Only Dragons: Thoughts on Wild Places and Vigorous Language -- Story as Common Ground -- Making Stories out of Everything: Valuing the Ordinary -- The Building Blocks of Storied Expression: Advice from a Teacher of Writing -- From Image to Event: Considering the Relations between Poetry and Prose as Conveyors of Environmental Values -- Photo and Word: The Power of Suggestion in Visual and Verbal "Language" -- Packing Information in the Form of Story: Viewing Narrative from the Perspective of Science -- Telling It Slant: The Value of Narrative Indirection -- Thriving on Ambiguity: Latency, Indirection, and Narrative -- Concluding Conversation
Subjects
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
- Nature in literature.
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.
- Natural history literature -- Authorship.
- Environmental literature -- Authorship.
- Environmental policy -- United States.
- American literature -- 20th century.
- Natural history -- United States.
- Nature -- Literary collections.
- Natural history -- Authorship.
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Storytelling.