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" Coyote at large : "
Katrina Schimmoeller Peiffer
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BL
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638769
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Peiffer, Katrina Schimmoeller,1969-
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Coyote at large : : humor in American nature writing /\ Katrina Schimmoeller Peiffer
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xiii, 229 pages ;; 23 cm
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087480664X
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: 9780874806649
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index
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| Contents
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Laying the foundation for humor in nature writing -- Coyote storyteller, Simon Ortiz -- Edward Abbey: laughing out of place -- Coyote magician, Ursula Le Guin -- Louise Erdrich: seeking the best medicine -- Coyote newcomer, Sally Carrighar -- Wendell Berry: maintaining household jokes -- Coyote seer, Gary Snyder -- Rachel Carson: upholding the comedy of survival -- Making sense of humor in North America
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"Coyote at Large shatters the misconception that nature writing - works that seem limited to expressing conventional awe, reverence, piety, and wonder - is a humorless genre. In this important and engaging study, Edward Abbey, Louise Erdrich, Wendell Berry, and Rachel Carson, whom the author dubs "comic moralists," command center stage. The trickster-coyote of Native American mythology appears in playful interludes, roaming at large through the prose and poetry of Simon Ortiz, Ursula Le Guin, Sally Carrighar, and Gary Snyder, providing a recurring analog for how comedy and humor show themselves in traditional and contemporary American nature writing."--Jacket
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American literature-- History and criticism
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Nature in literature
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Natural history-- United States-- Historiography
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American wit and humor-- History and criticism
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Comic, The, in literature
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Tricksters in literature
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810.9/36
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PS163.P45 2000
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