The Green Horizon: An (Environmental) Hermeneutics of Identification with Nature through Literature
Description:
This thesis is an examination of transformative effects of literature on environmental identity. The work begins by examining and expanding the Deep Ecology concept of identification-with-nature. The potential problems with identification through direct encounters are used to argue for the relevance of the possibility of identification-through-literature. Identification-through-literature is then argued for using the hermeneutic and narrative theories of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur, as …
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Date:
August 2010
Creator:
Bell, Nathan M.
Partner:
UNT Libraries