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Book SynopsisLoren Eiseley (1907–77) is one of the most important American nature writers of the twentieth century and an admired practitioner of creative nonfiction.
Artifacts and Illuminations, the first full-length collection of critical essays on the writing of Eiseley, situates his work in the genres of creative nonfiction and nature writing.
Trade Review"Past and future readings of Eiseley have been illuminated by this profound and expansive collection of essays. Anyone with a fondness for Eiseley or the journey of the American nature writing tradition will find Artifacts and Illuminations of immense interest."—Frank Izaguirre, Ecozon@
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Tom Lynch and Susan N. Maher
1. "The Bay of Broken Things": The Experience of Loss in the Work of Loren Eiseley
Susan Hanson
2. "Never Going to Cease My Wandering": Loren Eiseley and the American Hobo
M. Catherine Downs
3. "The Places Below": Mapping the Invisible Universe in Loren Eiseley's Plains Essays
Susan N. Maher
4. Unearthing Urban Nature: Loren Eiseley's Explorations of City and Suburb
Michael A. Bryson
5. Anthropomorphizing the Essay: Loren Eiseley's Representations of Animals
Kathleen Boardman
6. "The Borders between Us": Loren Eiseley's Ecopoetics
Tom Lynch
7. Lessons of an Interdisciplinary Life: Loren Eiseley's Rhetoric of Profundity in Popular Science Writing and "Two Cultures" Pedagogy
Pamela Gossin
8. Artifact and Idea: Loren Eiseley's Poetic Undermining of C. P. Snow
Mary Ellen Pitts
9. The Spirit of Synecdoche: Order and Chaos Contend in the Metaphors of Loren Eiseley
Jacqueline Cason
10. In a Dark Wood: Dante, Eiseley, and the Ecology of Redemption
Anthony Lioi
11. Emerson and Eiseley: Two Religious Visions
Jonathan Weidenbaum
12. Epic Narratives of Evolution: John Burroughs and Loren Eiseley
Stephen Mercier
13. Eiseley and Jung: Structuralism's Invisible Pyramid
John Nizalowski
14. From the American Great Plains to the Steppes of Russia: Loren Eiseley Transplanted
Dimitri N. Breschinsky
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
