Flashcards on Nature and Environmental Writing: Key Concepts
Nature and Environmental Writing: Key Concepts for Students
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Nature and Environmental Writing
26 cards
Card 1
Question: What is nature writing?
Answer: Writing that considers other species or non-human places and our relationship with them, often lyrical or poetic and combining romance with science.
Card 2
Question: How does nature writing differ from a field guide?
Answer: Unlike a field guide that gives plain factual descriptions of species, nature writing is usually lyrical, poetic, and reflective, not just factual.
Card 3
Question: What kinds of information does nature writing often draw on?
Answer: It often draws heavily on scientific information about the natural world.
Card 4
Question: What narrative perspective and elements are frequently used in nature writing?
Answer: Frequently written in the first person and incorporates personal observations and philosophical reflections on nature.
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Question: What moral aspect is commonly present in nature writing?
Answer: An ethical dimension—consideration of moral questions about human relationships with nature.
Card 6
Question: What political aspect is commonly present in nature writing?
Answer: A political dimension—value-oriented perspectives that address societal attitudes toward nature.
Card 7
Question: What quality makes great nature writing effective?
Answer: Attentiveness: drawing attention to minute details and the particularity of things to tell a larger story about people's relationship with nature and
Card 8
Question: What does environmental writing chronicle?
Answer: The global environmental crisis in the Anthropocene, making visible slow environmental harms like deforestation, species extinction, soil loss, bioacc
Card 9
Question: How is ecocriticism defined by Patrick D. Murphy?
Answer: Ecocriticism is literary criticism that arises from and is oriented toward a concern with human and nonhuman interaction and interrelationship.
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Question: How does Scott Slovic define ecocriticism?
Answer: The study of nature writing by any scholarly approach, or scrutiny of ecological implications and human-nature relationships in any literary text.