Explorations in Ecocriticism Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design [Hardcover]

[The author's] chapters cut across genres and fields of research, including literary analysis, cultural critique, advocacy for activism, and pedagogy. . . .Repeatedly, Lindholdt has the good sense to answer the question a reader might ask: so what? One is never in doubt that what these writers, such as John Josselyn, William Wood, and William Bartram, published is relevant for us to analyze today.Lindholdt has given us a strong new collection that stretches the conceptual boundaries of ecocriticism&. Explorations represents a laudable addition to Lexington Books recent ecocriticism series. The three terms of his subtitle explain the collections innovation, for the unexpected connections between advocacy, bioregionalism, and visual design demonstrate his reach into less familiar territory. Lindholdts wide, comfortable interdisciplinarity is commendable&. Perhaps Lindholdts most innovative work concerns his subversive reading of the Bureau of Reclamations commissioned art collection (196873), now dispersed and incomplete, through the conceptual lens of ecopornography. Here is a story few know, and his ecocritical undressing of this propagandistic initiative by a federal agency most known for out-of-control dam building persuasively exposes its agenda. The essay illustrates Lindholdts diverse, innovative paths, and Explorations inspires readers to further their own.Following his very well received volume of autobiographical ecocriticism,?In Earshot of Water, Paul Lindholdt delivers this new collection of scholarly ecocriticismdeeply researched, beautifully written, and no less comprehensive and compelling. Ranging from colonial natural histories to the reformist sabotage by contemporary eco-warriors, he surprises again and again with his revisionary insights into America's ongoing exploitation of the land.This is a passionate, well written account of the manifold underpinnings of environmental thought, one which re-energizes and re-vivifies the strengths and pol3“