Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing (SUNY series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Practice) - Tapa dura

..".this study opens up lines of inquiry that promise fruitful future scholarship and is, in itself, an enormous contribution to contemporary ecocriticism and the future of nature writing in general education." -- Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment

"Roorda's extended discussion of key nature writings provides a fresh interpretive perspective that illuminates these writers' visions in exciting and intellectually engaging ways. Roorda's careful, close readings and intellectual engagement prompt readers to revisit these texts from new and significant critical angles. The author's insightful discussions of the ethical dimensions of nature writing is fascinating." -- John S. Lofty, author of Time to Write: The Influence of Time and Culture on Learning to Write

"Besides the exquisite writing, it is quite interesting to see a piece that prompts a creative discourse about the way we have displaced nature to the periphery of culture through our inability to think of nature as the 'place' wherein culture resides." -- Mary Abascal-Hildebrand, University of San Francisco