Greening the Maple: Canadian Ecocriticism in Context
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Ecocriticism Northof the Forty-ninth Parallel
SECTION 1: NATURE AND NATION: BEFORE AND BEYOND THEMATIC CRITICISM
1: Selections from The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination (1971)
2: Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
3: La forêt or the Wilderness as Myth (1987)
4: Quest for the Peaceable Kingdom: Urban/Rural Codes in Roy, Laurence, and Atwood (1984)
5: Women in the Wilderness (1986)
SECTION 2: THE EMERGENCE OF ECOCRITICISM IN CANADA
6: “Along the Line of Smoky Hills”: Further Steps towards an Ecological Poetics (1990)
7: So Big about Green (1991)
8: So Unwise about Green (1996)
9: Eruptions of Postmodernity: The Postcolonial and the Ecological (1993)
10: Contemporary Canadian Poetry from the Edge: An Exploration of Literary Ecocriticism (1995)
11: Nature’s Nation, National Natures? Reading Ecocriticism in a Canadian Context (1998)
SECTION 3: READING CANADIAN LANDSCAPES
12: Nature Trafficking: Writing and Environment in the Western Canada–U.S. Borderlands
13: Calypso Trails: Botanizingon the Bruce Peninsula (2010)
14: Knowledge, Power, and Place: Environmental Politics in the Fiction of Matt Cohen and David Adams Richards (2007)
SECTION 4: ENVIRONMENTS AND CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
15: Canadian Art according to Emily Carr: The Search for Indigenous Expression (2005)
16: “Mon pays, ce n’est pasun pays, c’est l’hiver”: Literary Representations of Nature and Ecocritical Thought in Quebec
17: Decolonizasian: Reading Asianand First Nations Relations in Literature (2008)
SECTION 5: NEIGHBOURS UNKNOWN: ANIMALS IN CANADIAN LITERATURE
18: Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
19: Political Science: Realism in Roberts’s Animal Stories (1996)
20: The “I” in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification andSelf-Representation in Grey Owl’s Pilgrims of the Wild (2007)
21: The Ontology and Epistemology of Walking: Animality in Karsten Heuer’s Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
SECTION 6: IN FULL BLOOM:NEW DIRECTIONS IN CANADIAN THEORY
22: Poetics of the Semiosphere: Pataphysics, Biosemiotics, and Imaginary Solutions for Water (2011)
23: Literature and Geology: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary, Comparative Ecocriticism
24: The Dwelling Perspective in English-Canadian Drama
Afterword: Ecocritical Futures
Appendix: Taking Flight: From Little Grey Birds to The Goose
Notes on the Contributors
Index
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