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The concept of urbanature is a valuable new idea in ecocritical studies. Urbanature claims that urban life and nature are not as distinct as we have long supposed. Hawks and owls are nesting throughout Central Park and Manhattan at the same time that Western environmentalists are flying thousands of miles in jumbo-jets in an effort to “get back” to a version of nature they claim cannot be found in...
In 1995, Walter Harding turned out an article titled “Thoreau’s Reputation” trying to render a picture of how Thoreau had been perceived in a world other than the United States. He mentioned in particular the translation of the writer into different languages such as German, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, French, Czechoslovakian and Italian and he specifically dwelled on the Japanese reception of Thoreau...
Two widely read Chinese novels of the past 20 years—Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain (1990) and Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem (2004)—echo Henry David Thoreau’s proclamation (in his essay “Walking”) that “in Wildness is the preservation of the world.” These texts, which reveal their origins in journals, present highly personal quests for what remains of the wild in China; turning their backs on Beijing, the...
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