Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America - Hardcover

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie; Palmer, Jacqueline S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809317508 ISBN 13: 9780809317509

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This first book-length study of rhetoric and environmental politics calls for an end to the present oversimplified conflict between economic and evolutionary progress and suggests instead a continuum embracing the full range of human views of nature.

The authors use a systematic analysis of well-known works of nonfiction literature (by such authors as Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold, Barry Commoner, and Herman Daly) long neglected by literary, rhetorical, and cultural critics, as well as journalistic reports and stories, industry and activist polemics, government documents, textbooks, technical literature, and novels to show that rhetoric centered on the established dichotomy gives rise to ecospeak, which paralyzes instead of informing action.

About this title

About the Author:

M. Jimmie Killingsworth is associate professor of English and director of Writing Programs at Texas A & M University.Jacqueline S. Palmer is a research associate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas A & M University.

Synopsis:

Teachers of English and science team up to analyze and help reverse the trend of both environmentalists and developmentalists to information-empty, ideologically inspired sloganeering. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0809317508
• ISBN 13: 9780809317509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328