“Reinhabitation” and the Urban Ecology of Gary Snyder

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Hu Xing Gi Taek Ryoo
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제140호, 187~208쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.03.31

영문 초록

In his ecological writing, Gary Snyder has been committed to exploring urban space as a natural place to reinhabit. By reexamining the value and significance of urban nature, Snyder explores the complex and intimate connection between the urban space where humans participate in social activities and the natural environment that surrounds them. Drawing upon some key insights of urban ecology, this paper examines Snyder’s ecological visions exhibited in his poems and essays, with a particular thematic emphasis on the ecological network and ecological practice. Snyder recognizes that the structure of urban space is an ecological network in motion and emphasizes that the key to urban ecological practice is to recognize the local wild “information and experience” (PW 39). This paper will explore how Snyder reclaims the urban space as an ecological space while discarding the old dichotomy of city and nature, as well as how he finally achieves “reinhabitation” through ecological practices.

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Introduction

Ecological Network of City and Nature

Urban Ecological Practice

Conclusion

키워드

Gary Snyder urban ecology reinhabitation ecocriticism ecological practices