scholarly journals Sébastien Baudouin, Aux Origines du nature writing

Miranda ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Cazajous-Augé
Keyword(s):  
Nature Writing

scholarly journals Bird sounds in nature writing: Human perspective on animal communication

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 580-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadri Tüür
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Nature Writing ◽  
Animal Communication ◽  
Bird Song ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Human Interpretation ◽  
Object Of Study

The object of study in the present article is birds, more precisely the sounds of birds as they are represented in Estonian nature writing. The evolutionary and structural parallels of bird song with human language are reviewed. Human interpretation of bird sounds raises the question, whether it is possible to transmit or “translate” signals between the Umwelts of different species. The intentions of the sender of the signal may remain unknown, but the signification process within human Umwelt can still be traced and analysed. By approaching the excerpts of nature writing using semiotic methodology, I attempt to demonstrate how bird sounds can function as different types of signs, as outlined by Thomas A. Sebeok. It is argued that the zoosemiotic treatment of nature writing opens up a number of interesting perspectives that would otherwise remain beyond the scope of traditional literary analysis.

scholarly journals Groundless Metaphors and Living Maps in the Writing of Mary Shelley

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma McEvoy
Keyword(s):  
Nature Writing ◽  
Mary Shelley ◽  
The Self

Abstract In this article I consider Mary Shelley’s use of figuration, examining its characteristic forms. In three main sections address her use of allegory, what I call the “infection of the metaphorical”, and the groundless metaphor. Shelley’s writing will be looked at in dialogic relation to her predecessors and contemporaries and her peculiar stylistics discussed in terms of her sceptical attitude toward, and undermining of Romantic idealism. There will be specific emphasis on her treatment of favourite Romantic projects - nature, writing the self and the perceiving mind. Shelley will be discussed both as revisionist and saboteuse in her attitude to language.

scholarly journals How to Become a Mushroom: A New Nature Ethnography of Fungi in Aotearoa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alice Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Nature Writing ◽  
The West ◽  
Multispecies Ethnography ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Native Forests ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The Moment

<p>This thesis proposes that the moment of interaction between a person and a fungus is transformative of both subjects. Using new nature writing techniques in tandem with multispecies ethnography, this thesis seeks to present a rich, autoethnographic account of my encounters with fungi in the native forests of the West Coast of Aotearoa. Drawing on five days of ethnographic fieldwork spent at the Fungal Network of New Zealand (FUNNZ) annual Fungal Foray in the township of Moana, I explore the affective, emotional, sensory, intellectual, and corporeal experiences of interacting with fungi. Using new nature writing as an ethnographic medium, I suggest that narratives that pertain to the researcher’s experiences can render new understandings of nonhuman subjects. In doing so, I explore both the transformative potential of multispecies encounters for the researcher and the researched, and the literary potential of multispecies ethnography to illustrate the encounters themselves.</p>

Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 452
Author(s):  
Don Scheese ◽  
Randall Roorda
Keyword(s):  
Nature Writing
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