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Imagining the forest : narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : 單行本
副題名:	narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest
作者:	KnottJohn R., 1937-
其他團體作者:	Project Muse
出版地:	Ann Arbor
出版者:	University of Michigan Press;
出版年:	c2012
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (336 p.).
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) - Description and travel -
標題:	Middle West - In literature -
標題:	Michigan - In literature -
電子資源:	http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780472028078/
附註:	Includes bibliographical references and index
摘要註:	"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 presentOur 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 caseKnott 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"--
ISBN:	9780472028078electronic bk.
ISBN:	0472028073electronic bk.
ISBN:	9780472071647hbk.
ISBN:	0472051644hbk.
ISBN:	9780472051649pbk.

Imagining the forest : narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest
Knott, John R.

Imagining the forest : narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest / John Knott - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (336 p.)..
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9780472028078ISBN 0472028073ISBN 9780472071647ISBN 0472051644ISBN 9780472051649
Natural historyForests and forestryNature in literatureForestry in literatureForests in literature -- History -- Michigan -- Michigan

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