Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America

by Jacqueline S. Palmer and M. Jimmie Killingsworth

Book Overview

This first book-length study of rhetoric and environmental politics calls for an end to the present oversimplified conflict between economic and evolutionary progress and suggests instead a continuum embracing the full range of human views of nature.

The authors use a systematic analysis of well-known works of nonfiction literature (by such authors as Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold, Barry Commoner, and Herman Daly) long neglected by literary,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809317508
• ISBN13: 9780809317509
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"