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Abbey in America A Philosopher's Legacy in a New Century
Title
Abbey in America A Philosopher's Legacy in a New Century / edited by John A. Murray.
ISBN
9780826355188
0826355188
9780826355171
082635517X
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2015.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2015.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 218 pages)
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Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
More than twenty-five years after his death, iconic writer and nature activist Edward Abbey (1927-1989) remains an influential presence in the American environmental movement. Abbey's best known works continue to be widely read and inspire discourse on the key issues facing contemporary American society, particularly with respect to urbanization and technology. Abbey in America, published forty years after Abbey's popular novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, features an all-star list of contributors, including journalists, authors, scholars, and two of Abbey's best friends as they explore Abbey's ideas and legacy through their unique literary, personal, and scholarly perspectives. -- Amazon.com.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 14, 2021
Contents
Introduction: Edward Abbey, yesterday, and today
Part 1. Scholarly perspectives. Equal parts anger and love : a posthumous interview with Edward Abbey / Kathleen Dean Moore ; One man's terrorist : reclaiming Edward Abbey for the post-9/11 era / Michael Branch ; Edward Abbey on immigration / John Alcock ; Abbey in the anthropocene / Curt Meine ; Abbey's secret / Ben A. Minteer
Part 2. Independent authors. The view from Alaska / Nancy Lord ; A meditation on two work by Ed Abbey / Glenn Vanstrum
Part 3. Friends, acquaintances, and colleagues. Abbey's road / Edward Hoagland ; Desert Solitaire revisited / Doug Peacock ; Abbey following his own truth / Jack Leoffler ; On the edge with Edward Abbey, Charles Ives, and the Outlaws / Charles Bowden ; The age of Abbey / John A. Murray
Part 4. A new generation. Faraway / Genoa Alexander ; Valle de la luna / Esther Rose Honig
Afterword
Appendix: The Fool's Progress : an honest novel : a review / by John A. Murray.
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Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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