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Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment Advance Access originally published online on July 28, 2009
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 2009 16(3):569-589; doi:10.1093/isle/isp067
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A Land's Allegiance: Functions and Representations of Landscape in Post-Colonial Theatres

Eric Wagner

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I think that it is at least empirically arguable that our daily life, our psychic experience, our cultural languages, are today dominated by categories of space rather than categories of time, as in the period of high modernism.

—Frederic Jameson

Must literature always lead us away from the physical world, never back to it?

—Lawrence Buell

When Lawrence Buell began to scrutinize critical responses to nature in The Environmental Imagination, he lamented that most criticism was dedicated to excluding the literal role and function of nature. The history of literary study, he wrote, "presents the spectacle of having identified representation of the natural environment as a major theme while marginalizing the literature devoted most specifically to it and reading the canonical books in ways that minimize their interest in representing the environment as such" (9). Such sentiments could not be echoed today. In the intervening fourteen years since that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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