"Thomas Pringle's Plantation"
Thomas Pringle (1789–1834) was perhaps the most famous of the British settlers who landed at the Cape in 1820…
Thomas Pringle (1789–1834) was perhaps the most famous of the British settlers who landed at the Cape in 1820…
New Zealand’s literature (1890–1925) offers a wealth of information for the environmental historian that is unparalleled by most other countries.
An introduction to seven articles—five of which are written by current doctoral or recent postdoctoral students—that explore ideas, themes, and methods relating to research in the field in New Zealand.
This article focuses on contemporary literary and musical interpretations of changing relationships between humans and the environment in Mongolia. The author explores how these works relate to deep time, and crosshatches biographical, mythological, and geologic understandings of time.
Excerpt from The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy by Aidan Tynan.
Excerpt from Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics by Kristina Lyons.
In this chapter of the German-language version of her virtual exhibition, “Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur (Human-Nature Relations in German Literature),” Sabine Wilke examines forests and deforestation in works by Adalbert Stifter, Marlen Haushofer, and Elfriede Jelinek. For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature,” Sabine Wilke examines forests and deforestation in works by Adalbert Stifter, Marlen Haushofer, and Elfriede Jelinek. For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.
This chapter in the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by Raymond Chipeniuk, shows that in many cultures the idea of wilderness has been borrowed from the English-speaking world.