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A Mountain for Itself: The Rhetoric of Wilderness

PWR 1AT - Winter 2013 - Instructor: Todhunter, A.
Last Updated: 17-Jan-2013

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A guide to resources for PWR 1AT: A Mountain for Itself: The Rhetoric of Wilderness. Course topics include: representations of wilderness: wilderness in fiction, film, games, and advertising; What does wilderness mean to us?

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Subjects

General and interdisciplinary
Environmental studies

Background/reference sources:

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research-based argument.

A companion to environmental philosophy / edited by Dale Jamieson.
Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
Tanner » Reference (Non-circulating) » B72 .B565 1991 V.19
Encyclopedia of environmental ethics and philosophy / J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman, editors in chief.
Farmington Hills, MI : Macmillan Reference USA/Gale Cengage Learning, c2009.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » GE42 .E533 2009 V.1
Green issues and debates : an A-to-Z guide / Howard S. Schiffman, general editor.
Los Angeles : Sage Publications, c2011.
Green » Stacks » GE195 .G736 2011
Also online.

Selected books:

Dark green religion : nature spirituality and the planetary future / Bron Taylor.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
Green » Stacks » BL65 .N35 T39 2010
Dispossessing the wilderness : Indian removal and the making of the national parks / Mark David Spence.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Green » Stacks » E98 .R4 S64 1999
Film and the American moral vision of nature : Theodore Roosevelt to Walt Disney / Ronald B. Tobias.
East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press, c2011.
Green » Stacks » PN1995.9 .N38 T53 2011
"Forest beatniks" and "urban Thoreaus" : Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and Michael McClure / Rod Phillips.
New York : P. Lang, c2000.
Green » Stacks » PS228 .N39 P45 2000

Selected subjects:

Environmental ethics
Philosophy of nature
Wilderness areas in literature
Wildlife management

Selected Journals:

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Selected Databases

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Other libraries on campus:

Biology (Falconer)
Earth Sciences (Branner)