Browsing Faculty of Arts by Author "Martin, Julia"
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Chapter 12 imagination and the eco-social crisis (or: why I write creative non-fiction)
Martin, Julia (Brill, 2020)Green Matters reflects on the ‘unique cultural function’ of literary texts with regard to environmental and ecological concerns. Another way of putting this is to ask: what do literary texts enable us to say or do in ... -
The path which goes beyond: Danger on Peaks responds to suffering
Martin, Julia (Taylor & Francis, 2017)Now well into his eighties, Gary Snyder continues to pursue lifetime habits of engagement and detachment in which the activities of literary work, spiritual practice, environmental activism, and family life are mutually ... -
Witness to the makeshift shore: Ecological practice in A Littoral Zone
Martin, Julia (UKZN, 2013)This essay suggests that Douglas Livingstone's long poem 'A Littoral Zone' (1991), an explicit conversation between his work as an environmental scientist and his work as a poet, makes for a poetic statement that is, ...