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Ecospeak: rhetoric and environmental politics in America

By M. Jimmie Killingsworth , Jacqueline S. Palmer

Book information

Publisher
SIU Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0809317508, 9780809317509
LCC
HC110.E5 K5 1992
Google Books ID
qZIioxeunXcC
Open Library ID
OL1534953M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
728 kB (745150 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
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Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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, rhetorical, and cultural critics, as well as journalistic reports and stories, industry and activist polemics, government documents, textbooks, technical literature, and novels to show that rhetoric centered on the established dichotomy gives rise to ecospeak, which paralyzes instead of informing action.

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