Abbey, Edward - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Berry, Wendell. “A Few Words in Favor of Edward Abbey.” In Earthly Words: Essays on Contemporary American Nature and Environmental Writers, edited by John Cooley, pp. 19-34. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Argues against prevailing critical and popular interpretations of Abbey and his work.
Levin, Jonathan. “Coordinates and Connections: Self, Language, and World in Edward Abbey and William Least Heat-Moon.” Contemporary Literature 41, no. 2 (2000): 214-51.
Explores differences in the approaches of Abbey and William Least Heat-Moon to discover “the irreducibly human, experiential perspective of any ecocentric sensitivity.”
McClintock, James I. “Edward Abbey's ‘Antidotes to Despair.’” Critique 31, no. 1 (fall 1989): 41-54.
Distances Abbey from the genre of nature writing and places him instead among writers such as Jack London...
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