Imagining the forest[electronic reso...
Great Lakes Region (North America)

 

  • Imagining the forest[electronic resource] :narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 810.9/358774
    書名/作者: Imagining the forest : narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest // John Knott.
    作者: Knott, John R.
    出版者: Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, c2012.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (336 p.).
    標題: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI).
    標題: NATURE / Essays.
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
    標題: Natural history - Michigan.
    標題: Forests and forestry - History. - Michigan
    標題: Nature in literature.
    標題: Forestry in literature.
    標題: Forests in literature.
    標題: Great Lakes Region (North America) - Politics and government.
    標題: Middle West - Social life and customs - 20th century.
    標題: Michigan - Fiction.
    ISBN: 9780472028078 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0472028073 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780472071647 (hbk.)
    ISBN: 0472051644 (hbk.)
    ISBN: 9780472051649 (pbk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    摘要、提要註: "Forests have always been more than just their trees. The forests inMichigan (and similar forests in other Great Lakes states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota) played a role in the American cultural imaginationfrom the beginnings of European settlement in the early 19th century to the present.Our relationships with those forests have been shaped bythe cultural attitudes of the times, and people have invested in them both moral and spiritual meanings. Author John Knott draws upon such works as Simon Schama's Landscape and Memory and Robert Pogue Harrison's Forests: The Shadow of Civilization in exploring ways in which our relationships with forests have been shaped, using Michigan-its history of settlement, popular literature, and forest management controversies-as an exemplary case.Knott looks at such well-known figures as William Bradford, James Fenimore Cooper, John Muir, John Burroughs, and Teddy Roosevelt; Ojibwa conceptions of the forest and natural world (including how Longfellow mythologized them); early explorer accounts; and contemporary literature set in the Upper Peninsula, including Jim Harrison's True North and Philip Caputo's Indian Country.Two competing metaphors evolved over time, Knott shows: the forest as howling wilderness, impedingthe progress of civilization and in need of subjugation, and the forest as temple or cathedral, worthy of reverence and protection. Imaginingthe Forest shows the origin and development of both"--
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