Teaching Environmental Writing: Ecocritical Pedagogy and Poetics

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Environmental and nature writing is an increasingly popular topic in the creative writing classroom. The first comprehensive study of teaching practice in this field, Revisioning Environmental Writing critically reflects on how students are taught to write about the natural world. The book draws on interviews with teachers and students to bring insights from the classroom into conversation with close readings of contemporary environmental poetry informed by the latest developments in ecoriticism. From this conversation, Isabel Galleymore proposes a set of pedagogical exercises to expand the scope of nature writing education and to help student writers engage more deeply with their environments. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 ‘Where you are’: Place writing 2 The ‘I-me-my voice’: The first-person in environmental writing 3 ‘I am not a swift’: Approaching non-humans 4 Writing ‘more in the world’: Fact and figuration 5 ‘On the world’s terms and not my own’: Afterword Notes Introduction 1 ‘Where you are’: Place writing 2 The ‘I-me-my voice’: The first-person in environmental writing 3 ‘I am not a swift’: Approaching non-humans 4 Writing ‘more in the world’: Fact and figuration 5 ‘On the world’s terms and not my own’: Authenticity, self-reflexivity and otherness Bibliography Index