Contents
Preface @@@
1 Savoring, Saving, and the Practice of Ecocritical Responsibility @@@
2 Going Away to Think: Travel, Home, and the Academic Life @@@
3 Ecocriticism: Storytelling, Values, Communication, Contact @@@
4 Seeking the Language of Solid Ground: Reflections on Ecocriticism and
Narrative @@@
5 "Be Prepared for the Worst": Love, Anticipated Loss, and Environmental
Valuation @@@
6 Authenticity, Occupancy, and Credibility: Rick Bass and the Rhetoric of
Protecting Place @@@
7 Mexico City Declaration (21 January 2000): A Story of Nonconsensus @@@
8 Ecocriticism on and after September 11 @@@
9 Gated Mountains @@@
10 Animals and Humans: In Appreciation of Randy Malamud's Poetic Animals
and Animal Souls @@@
11 Chimeric Opinions: Xenotransplantation and the Concept of "Mixing" @@@
12 The Story of Climate Change: Science, Narrative, and Social Action @@@
13 There's Something About Your Voice I Cannot Hear: Environmental
Literature, Public Policy, and Ecocriticism @@@
14 Seeking a Discourse of Environmental Sensitivity in a World of Data:
The Divide Between Literature and Science @@@
15 Oh, Lovely Slab: Robinson Jeffers, Stone Work, and the Locus of the
Real @@@
16 Out of Time @@@
17 Even Better than the Real Thing @@@
Acknowledgments
Works Cited @@@
Index @@@