Post-secular Nature and the New Nature Writing
With the turn of the twenty-first century, a group of writers began rehabilitating British nature writing and the voice of the individual interacting with it, producing what has become collectively known as the new nature writing. This examination considers how this literature represents a post-secu...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2018]
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2018, Volume: 67, Issue: 3, Pages: 454-471 |
RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CD Christianity and Culture NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics TJ Modern history |
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MACFARLANE, Robert
B Nature B MACDONALD, Helen, 1970- B Natural History Authorship B Postsecularism B Helen Macdonald B new nature writing B NATURAL history literature B Robert Macfarlane B NATURE writers B Post-secular |
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Summary: | With the turn of the twenty-first century, a group of writers began rehabilitating British nature writing and the voice of the individual interacting with it, producing what has become collectively known as the new nature writing. This examination considers how this literature represents a post-secular re-conceptualization of our relationship to nature. The new nature writing challenges a key element of the secular social imaginary, namely the subject-centered, immanence-bound, disenchanted representation of nature, which sets the self over and above nature, destabilizing existing dichotomies, and generating a multiplicity of hybridized possibilities that re-conceptualize our relationship to nature. |
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ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333117735878 |