Nature prose: writing in ecological crisis
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Writing in Ecological Crisis
DOMINIC HEAD
OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contents
Introduction 1
The Critique of Nature Writing 8
Nature, Culture, and Indigenous Knowledge 13
Immersion in the Nonhuman 17
Fiction, Nonfiction, and Ecomimesis 21
1 Remoteness 27
The Question of Solitude 31
The Gavin Maxwell Myth 43
Maxwell’s Followers 50
Neil Ansell: the Hebrides and Remoteness 60
2 Exclusivity 67
Nature Writing and Privilege 68
Reclaiming the Tropes of Nature Writing 74
Indigenous Lore 83
Remembering the Dead 95
3 Abundance 105
Flight Behaviour: Abundance and Climate Change 105
Parables and Parable Effects 111
Abundance and the Emergence of Environmental Consciousness 115
Cultural Memory 120
The Expressive Abundance of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 125
The Opacity of the Parable Effect 133
Tim Dee’s Starlings 137
4 Rarity 142
The Shadow of Extinction 144
Naming and Collecting 153
Quest Narratives 162
Rethinking Rarity 171
Conclusion: Transformations 180
Self-conscious Rewilding 182
Wolves and People 188
Intimations of (Im)mortality 194
Coda 201
Bibliography 205
Index 217
Naturo This book explains the popularity and appeal of contemporary writing about nature. It intervenes in key areas of contemporary debate about literature and the environment and explores the enduring appeal of writing about nature during an ecological crisis. Using a range of international examples, with a focus on late twentieth֊ and early twenty-first-century writing from Britain and the US, Dominic Head argues that nature writing contains formal effects which encapsulate our current ecological dilemma and offer an original resource for critical thinking. The environmental crisis has injected a fresh urgency into nature writing, along with a new piquancy for those readers seeking solace in the nonhuman, or for those looking to change their habits in the face of ecological catastrophe. However, behind this apparently strong match between the aims of nature writers and the desires of their readers, there is also a shared mood of radical uncertainty and insecurity. The treatment and construction of‘nature in contemporary imaginative prose reveal some significant paradoxes beneath its dominant moods, moods which are usually earnest, sometimes celebratory, sometimes prophetic or cautionary. It is in these paradoxical moments that the contemporary ecological crisis is formally encoded, in a progressive development of ecological consciousness from the late 1950s onwards. Nature prose, fiction and nonfiction, is now contemporaneous with a defining time of crisis, while also being formally fashioned by that context. This is a mode of writing that emerges in a world in crisis,
but which is also, in some ways, in crisis itself. With chapters on remoteness, exclusivity, abundance, and rarity, this book marks a turning point in how literary criticism engages with nature writing.
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Nature Prose
Writing in Ecological Crisis
DOMINIC HEAD
OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contents
Introduction 1
The Critique of Nature Writing 8
Nature, Culture, and Indigenous Knowledge 13
Immersion in the Nonhuman 17
Fiction, Nonfiction, and Ecomimesis 21
1 Remoteness 27
The Question of Solitude 31
The Gavin Maxwell Myth 43
Maxwell’s Followers 50
Neil Ansell: the Hebrides and Remoteness 60
2 Exclusivity 67
Nature Writing and Privilege 68
Reclaiming the Tropes of Nature Writing 74
Indigenous Lore 83
Remembering the Dead 95
3 Abundance 105
Flight Behaviour: Abundance and Climate Change 105
Parables and Parable Effects 111
Abundance and the Emergence of Environmental Consciousness 115
Cultural Memory 120
The Expressive Abundance of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 125
The Opacity of the Parable Effect 133
Tim Dee’s Starlings 137
4 Rarity 142
The Shadow of Extinction 144
Naming and Collecting 153
Quest Narratives 162
Rethinking Rarity 171
Conclusion: Transformations 180
Self-conscious Rewilding 182
Wolves and People 188
Intimations of (Im)mortality 194
Coda 201
Bibliography 205
Index 217
Naturo This book explains the popularity and appeal of contemporary writing about nature. It intervenes in key areas of contemporary debate about literature and the environment and explores the enduring appeal of writing about nature during an ecological crisis. Using a range of international examples, with a focus on late twentieth֊ and early twenty-first-century writing from Britain and the US, Dominic Head argues that nature writing contains formal effects which encapsulate our current ecological dilemma and offer an original resource for critical thinking. The environmental crisis has injected a fresh urgency into nature writing, along with a new piquancy for those readers seeking solace in the nonhuman, or for those looking to change their habits in the face of ecological catastrophe. However, behind this apparently strong match between the aims of nature writers and the desires of their readers, there is also a shared mood of radical uncertainty and insecurity. The treatment and construction of‘nature in contemporary imaginative prose reveal some significant paradoxes beneath its dominant moods, moods which are usually earnest, sometimes celebratory, sometimes prophetic or cautionary. It is in these paradoxical moments that the contemporary ecological crisis is formally encoded, in a progressive development of ecological consciousness from the late 1950s onwards. Nature prose, fiction and nonfiction, is now contemporaneous with a defining time of crisis, while also being formally fashioned by that context. This is a mode of writing that emerges in a world in crisis,
but which is also, in some ways, in crisis itself. With chapters on remoteness, exclusivity, abundance, and rarity, this book marks a turning point in how literary criticism engages with nature writing. |
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