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Daybooks of Discovery

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Author : Mary Ellen Bellanca
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813926131
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Daybooks of Discovery written by Mary Ellen Bellanca and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As prescientific worldviews ceded to a more materialist outlook informed by an explosion of factual knowledge, lovers of nature both famous and obscure began to use daily composition as a quest for information about and a celebration of their surroundings. A central site of encounter, discovery, and expression, nature diaries took part in a vigorous cultural dialogue, performing, in an era called the "golden age" of nature writing, an engaging alchemy of language, science, and art. In Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770-1870, Mary Ellen Bellanca offers the first critical study of this genre. In looking at the diaries of Gilbert White, Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Shore, George Eliot, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, as well as those of lesser-known figures, she explores the writers' pursuit of empirical knowledge of nature for its own sake, rather than focusing on Romantic nature philosophy or on 'ecology' as a metaphor for spiritual connectedness. Each chapter situates an individual author's journals amid contemporary discourses of natural history, examining how journal writing enabled and mediated the diarist's practice as naturalist. A mélange of fact, narrative, and imaginative re-creation, the nature diary played a crucial role in literature and science in a period of burgeoning knowledge about the natural world. For students and scholars of environmental history, the history of science, ecocriticism, and Victorian studies, Daybooks of Discovery will prove an essential tool for understanding this distinct genre.

The Discovery (Dive #1)

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Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545628113
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Discovery (Dive #1) written by Gordon Korman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharks, shipwreck, and sunken treasure in the latest adventure trilogy from Gordon Korman.Four kids are on a marine expedition for the summer, diving to explore an underwater habitat that's just been altered by a seismic event. What they find, though, is much more than fish - it's sunken treasure. Can they salvage it without anyone else getting to it first? Will the prospect of wealth set them against one another? And what about those sharks . . . .DIVE is another action-packed trilogy from Gordon Korman. The narrative will shift between an account of two kids caught in the shipwreck and the story of the four kids fighting over and desperately trying to get the treasure.

Discovery In The Woods

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Author : Sandy Barton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781490911496
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Discovery In The Woods written by Sandy Barton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Trees, moss, leaves, pine cones and a tree house too, are all of the things you'd find on a walk in the back woods. But one day, an ordinary walk turns into something very extra-ordinary! See what Sophie, the fluffy golden retriever finds deep down under the roots of an old pine tree. She makes a BIG discovery that turns out to be very little!"

The Daybooks of Edward Weston: Mexico

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Author : Edward Weston
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Daybooks of Edward Weston: Mexico written by Edward Weston and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 1973 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than fifteen years, Edward Weston kept a diary in which he recorded his struggle to understand himself, his society, and his medium. Seldom has an artist written about his life as vividly, intimately, or sensitively. His journal has become a classic of photographic literature.A towering figure in twentieth-century photography, Weston sought to awaken human vision. His restless quest for beauty and the mystical presence behind it created a body of work unrivaled in the medium. For more than fifteen years, Edward Weston kept a diary in which he recorded his struggle to understand himself, his society, and his medium. Seldom has an artist written about his life as vividly, intimately, or sensitively. His journal has become a classic of photographic literature.A towering figure in twentieth-century photography, Weston sought to awaken human vision. His restless quest for beauty and the mystical presence behind it created a body of work unrivaled in the medium.

Let's Show God's Love on Valentine's Day

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Author : Greg Holder
Publisher : Happy Day Book
ISBN 13 : 9780784717226
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Let's Show God's Love on Valentine's Day written by Greg Holder and published by Happy Day Book. This book was released on 2005-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holiday Discovery series helps your child honor the Lord in every holiday celebration. In Let's Show God's Love on Valentine's Day your child learns to celebrate God's love all year long.

Out of the Shadow

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Author : Rinda West
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813926568
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Shadow written by Rinda West and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In western culture, the separation of humans from nature has contributed to a schism between the conscious reason and the unconscious dreaming psyche, or internal human "nature." Our increasing lack of intimacy with the land has led to a decreased capacity to access parts of the psyche not normally valued in a capitalist culture. In Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land, Rinda West uses Jung's idea of the shadow to explore how this divorce results in alienation, projection, and often breakdown. Bringing together ideas from analytical psychology, environmental thought, and literary studies, West explores a variety of literary texts--including several by contemporary American Indian writers--to show, through a sort of geography of the psyche, how alienation from nature reflects a parallel separation from the "nature" that constitutes the unconscious. Through her analysis of narratives that offer images of people confronting shadow, reconnecting with nature, and growing psychologically and ethically, West reveals that when characters enter into relationship with the natural world, they are better able to confront and reclaim shadow. By writing "from the shadows," West argues that contemporary writers are exploring ways of being human that have the potential for creating more just and honorable relationships with nature, and more sustainable communities. For ecocritics, conservation activists, scholars and students of environmental studies and American Indian studies, and ecopsychologists, Out of the Shadow offers hope for humans wishing to reconcile with themselves, with nature, and with community.

Clare's Lyric

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Author : Stephanie Kuduk Weiner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191511897
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Clare's Lyric written by Stephanie Kuduk Weiner and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the lyric poems written by John Clare and three twentieth-century poets—Arthur Symons, Edmund Blunden, and John Ashbery—who turned to him at pivotal moments in their own development. These writers crafted a distinctive mode of lyric, 'Clare's lyric', that emphatically grounds its truth claims in mimetic accuracy. For these writers, accurate representation involves not only words that name objects, describe scenes, and create images pointing to a shared reality but also patterns of sound, the syntactic organization of lines, and the shapes of whole poems and collections of poems. Their works masterfully investigate how poetic language and form can refer to the world, word by word, line by line, and poem by poem. Written in a lively and accessible style, Clare's Lyric sheds light on a richly diverse body of poems and on enduring questions about how literature represents reality. Weiner's attentive close readings bring the writings of Clare, Symons, Blunden, and Ashbery to life by revealing precisely how they captured a vital, arresting, and complex world in their poems. Their unique approach to lyric is traced from Clare's poems about birdsong, his sonnets, and his later poems of loss and absence to Symons's efforts to make 'amends to nature' Blunden's vivid depictions of a European and English countryside scarred by the First World War, and Ashbery's unbounded and bountiful landscapes. This inventive study refines our understanding of the aesthetic of Romanticism, the genre of lyric, and the practice of literary representation, and it makes a compelling case for the ongoing importance of poems about nature and social life.

A culture of curiosity

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Author : Leonie Hannan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526153041
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book A culture of curiosity written by Leonie Hannan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the practice of scientific enquiry as it took place in the eighteenth-century home. While histories of science have identified the genteel household as an important site for scientific experiment, they have tended to do so via biographies of important men of science. Using a wide range of historical source material, from household accounts and inventories to letters and print culture, this book investigates the tools within reach of early modern householders in their search for knowledge. It considers the under-explored question of the home as a site of knowledge production and does so by viewing scientific enquiry as one of many interrelated domestic practices. It shows that knowledge production and consumption were necessary facets of domestic life and that the eighteenth-century home generated practices that were integral to ‘Enlightenment’ enquiry.

Refiguring the Map of Sorrow

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Author : Mark Christopher Allister
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813920647
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Refiguring the Map of Sorrow written by Mark Christopher Allister and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allister (English, St. Olaf College) examines works by six authors which fuse autobiography, literary nonfiction, and environmental literature into a distinct form of "grief narrative." Each of these authors "... begins in depression that shadows grief; each comes to put an end to depression, to move through mourning, by turning observations and stories of the external world into a narrative that heals." The six works featured are Sue Hubbell's A Country Year, Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge, Bill Barich's Laughing in the Hills, William Least Heat-Moons' Blue Highways, Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard, and Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Heroes of Invention and Discovery

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature

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Author : Brycchan Carey
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030327922
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature written by Brycchan Carey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in anage of expanding European colonialism. It offers important new perspectives intothe ways birds populate and generate cultural meaning in a variety of literary andnon-literary genres from 1700–1840 as well as throughout a broad range ofecosystems and bioregions. It considers a wide range of authors, including someof the most celebrated figures in eighteenth-century literature such as John Gay,Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Cowper, MaryWollstonecraft, Thomas Bewick, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, andGilbert White. ignwogwog[p

The Victorian Diary

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Author : Anne-Marie Millim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317012615
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Diary written by Anne-Marie Millim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her examination of neglected diaristic texts, Anne-Marie Millim expands the field of Victorian diary criticism by complicating the conventional notion of diaries as mainly private sources of biographical information. She argues that for Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin, Edith Simcox and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the exposure or publication of their diaries was a real possibility that they either coveted or feared. Millim locates the diary at the intersection of the public and private spheres to show that well-known writers and public figures of both sexes exploited the diary's self-reflexive, diurnal structure in order to enhance their creativity and establish themselves as authors. Their object was to manage, rather than to indulge or repress, their emotions for the purposes of perfecting their observational and critical skills. Reading these diaries as literary works in their own right, Millim analyses their crucial role in the construction of authorship. By relating these Victorian writers' diaries to their publications and to contemporary works of cultural criticism, Millim shows the multifarious ways in which diaristic practices, emotional management and professional output corresponded to experiences of the literary marketplace and to nineteenth-century codes of propriety.

The Dot

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Author : Peter H. Reynolds
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 153621809X
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Dot written by Peter H. Reynolds and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind and she goes on to encourage another student who feels the same as she had.

Unsettling Nature

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Author : Taylor Eggan
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813946859
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Unsettling Nature written by Taylor Eggan and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity’s displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis’s homesickness more than ever. Yet nowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary environmental thinking, and particularly in eco-phenomenology. If only we can reestablish our sense of material enmeshment in nature, so the logic goes, we might reverse the degradation we humans have wrought—and in saving the earth we can once again dwell in the nearness of our own being. Unsettling Nature opens with a meditation on the trouble with such ecological homecoming narratives, which bear a close resemblance to narratives of settler colonial homemaking. Taylor Eggan demonstrates that the Heideggerian strain of eco-phenomenology—along with its well-trod categories of home, dwelling, and world—produces uncanny effects in settler colonial contexts. He reads instances of nature’s defamiliarization not merely as psychological phenomena but also as symptoms of the repressed consciousness of coloniality. The book at once critiques Heidegger’s phenomenology and brings it forward through chapters on Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Olive Schreiner, Doris Lessing, and J. M. Coetzee. Suggesting that alienation may in fact be "natural" to the human condition and hence something worth embracing instead of repressing, Unsettling Nature concludes with a speculative proposal to transform eco-phenomenology into "exo-phenomenology"—an experiential mode that engages deeply with the alterity of others and with the self as its own Other.

Columbus Day

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Author : Vicki Liestman
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
ISBN 13 : 9780876145593
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Columbus Day written by Vicki Liestman and published by Carolrhoda Books. This book was released on 1992-04-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the controversy surrounding the celebration of Columbus's invasion of the "new world" argues that expeditions such as his had negative and positive effects and helps young readers gain a understanding of the responsibilities of future explorers. Reprint.

Visions of the Land

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Author : Michael A. Bryson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813921724
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Visions of the Land written by Michael A. Bryson and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2002-06-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Yet despite their range of genres—including exploration narratives, technical reports, natural histories, scientific autobiographies, fictional utopias, nature writing, and popular scientific literature—these seven authors produced strikingly connected representations of nature and the practice of science in America from about 1840 to 1970. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of the authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them. Visions of the Land explores how our environmental attitudes have influenced and been shaped by various scientific perspectives from the time of western expansion and geographic exploration in the mid-nineteenth century to the start of the contemporary environmental movement in the twentieth century. Bryson offers a literary-critical analysis of how writers of different backgrounds, scientific training, and geographic experiences represented nature through various kinds of natural science, from natural history to cartography to resource management to ecology and evolution, and in the process, explored the possibilities and limits of science itself. Visions of the Land examines the varied, sometimes conflicting, but always fascinating ways in which we have defined the relations among science, nature, language, and the human community. Ultimately, it is an extended meditation on the capacity of using science to live well within nature.

Beyond Nature Writing

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Author : Karla Armbruster
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813920146
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Nature Writing written by Karla Armbruster and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together, their work signals a new direction in the field and offers refreshingly original insights into a broad spectrum of texts.