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dc.contributor.authorHarris, Stephenen
local.source.editorEditor(s): Robyn Bartel, Marty Branagan, Fiona Utley and Stephen Harrisen
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-03T04:05:20Z-
dc.date.available2022-08-03T04:05:20Z-
dc.date.issued2021-
dc.identifier.citationRethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence, p. 11-30en
dc.identifier.isbn9780429299025en
dc.identifier.isbn9780367615901en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/53114-
dc.description.abstract<p>The significance of wilderness to the human condition is reflected in the long history of wilderness as a trope in literature. From powerful biblical conceptions of wilderness as a realm of spiritual and human destitution, of banishment and exile, and of abyssal 'otherworlds' beyond the locus of the sacred and civilised, through to Romantic beliefs about the benevolent forces and elemental powers inherent in nature, and, in turn, to contemporary ideas of the 'wild' influenced by conservationist and environmentally informed views centring on the value of wilderness in regard to biodiversity, the concept of wilderness holds a distinctly moral and culturally complex value. While literary treatments very often introduce subtle complexities regarding the relationship between moral considerations and the social and political agenda, in part attributable to variations across cultures, the Australian experience differs, perhaps only by degrees, but significantly so. Australian depictions of wilderness fall between the American and English-European perceptions, with contemporary understandings emphasising that, as Tim Winton says, 'nature is not done with us yet'. This chapter considers reflections on the wilderness and 'wild' by leading Australian writers, both in terms of contemporary conceptual modulations and political-social implications, and in view of the changing perceptions of the relationship with 'country' since European colonisation.</p>en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofRethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existenceen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Studies in Conservation and the Environmenten
dc.relation.isversionof1en
dc.titleWilderness in literature and cultureen
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9780429299025-3en
local.contributor.firstnameStephenen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailsharris9@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryB1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.publisher.placeLondon, United Kingdomen
local.identifier.totalchapters16en
local.format.startpage11en
local.format.endpage30en
local.identifier.scopusid85095401285en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.contributor.lastnameHarrisen
local.seriespublisherRoutledgeen
local.seriespublisher.placeLondon, United Kingdomen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:sharris9en
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:1959.11/53114en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleWilderness in literature and cultureen
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.search.authorHarris, Stephenen
local.uneassociationYesen
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local.isrevisionNoen
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local.year.published2021en
local.fileurl.closedpublishedhttps://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/bbd0b3d6-c883-4c76-b969-208bd1a15de6en
local.subject.for2020440404 Political economy and social changeen
local.subject.for2020440810 Peace studiesen
local.subject.for2020440805 Environmental politicsen
local.subject.seo2020190299 Environmental policy, legislation and standards not elsewhere classifieden
local.relation.worldcathttp://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1196317444en
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