TY - BOOK ID - 77892888 TI - Dramas of solitude : narratives of retreat in American nature writing PY - 1998 SN - 0585062323 9780585062327 0791436772 0791436780 1438417691 9781438417691 PB - Albany : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Wilderness areas in literature. KW - Solitude in literature. KW - Nature in literature. KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Self in literature. KW - Literacy. KW - Nature in poetry KW - Illiteracy KW - Education KW - General education KW - Narrative (Rhetoric) KW - Narrative writing KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77892888 AB - What do stories of nature tell us about the social or ethical purposes of solitude? And what do stories of solitude reveal of the "character" of nonhuman nature? Dramas of Solitude brings the insights of narrative theory to bear upon the genre of nature writing, to explore the social or ethical purposes of solitude in stories of retreat in nature. Through discussions of texts by Henry D. Thoreau, John C. Van Dyke, Wendell Berry, and student writers, among other, this book complicates social views of literacy with depictions of a solitude held in dynamic relation to a not-only-human community. It will inform the efforts of literary critics and writing teachers alike who hope to reintegrate English studies upon ecological terms. ER -