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Introduction: Heraclitean fire, Bakhtiniam laughter, and the limits of literary judgement / Peter Quigley -- Foreword I: The roots of Abbey's social critique / Edward S. Twining -- Foreword II: Magpie / SueEllen Campbell -- I'm a humanist: the poetic past in Desert Solitaire / David J. Rothman -- Who is the Lone Ranger?: Edward Abbey as philosopher / David Rothenberg -- Nativity, domesticity, and exile in Edward Abbey's One True Home / Tom Lynch -- Rage against the machine: Edward Abbey and Neo-Luddite thought / Paul Lindholdt -- Edward Abbey's inadvertent Postmodernism: theory, autobiography, and politics / William Chaloupka -- Abbey as anarchist / Harold Alderman -- Getting the desert into a book: Nature writing and the problem of representation in a postmodern world / Claire Lawrence -- Surviving Doom and Gloom: Edward Abbey's desert comedies / Rebecca Raglon -- Nietzschean themes in the works of Edward Abbey / Steve Norwick -- Edward Abbey's Cow / Barbara Barney Nelson -- Edward Abbey and Gender / Paul T. Bryant -- The life of the author: Emerson, Foucault, and the reading of Edward Abbey's journals / David Copland Morris -- From the banks of the Illisus to the Arches of Utah: Edward Abbey as noble rhetorician / Bryan L. Moore -- Biocentrism and Green Existentialism: Edward Abbey's conflicting conceptualizations of nature / Werner Bigell -- The politics and aesthetics of a hopeful anarchism: Edward Abbey's postmodern Angelic Demonology / Peter Quigley -- The politics of leisure: industrial tourism in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire / James A. Papa, Jr. |
