Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Berry, Wendell (1934-....)
Titre(s) : Essays 1969-1990 [Texte imprimé] / Wendell Berry ; Jack Shoemaker, editor
Lien au titre d'ensemble : Appartient à : Essays
Publication : New York : the Library of America, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiv, 827 p.) ; 21 cm
Collection : The library of America ; 316
Lien à la collection : The library of America
Note(s) : Contient une importante partie critique. - Including : "The unsettling of America" and selections from "The long-legged house",
"The hidden wound", "A continuous harmony", "Recollected essays", "The gift of good
land", "Standing by words", "Home economics", "What are people for?". - Includes bibliographical references and index
Writing with elegance and clarity, Wendell Berry is a compassionate and compelling
voice for our time of political and cultural distrust and division, whether expounding
the joys and wisdom of nonindustrial agriculture, relishing the pleasure of eating
food produced locally by people you know, or giving voice to a righteous contempt
for hollow innovation. He is our most important writer on the cultural crisis posed
by industrialization and mass consumerism, and the vital role of rural, sustainable
farming in preserving the planet as well as our national character. Now, in celebration
of Berry's extraordinary six-decade-long career, Library of America presents a two-volume
selection of his nonfiction writings prepared in close consultation with the author.
This first volume collects thirty-three essays from nine different books, including
his first, The Long-Legged House (1969), What are People For? (1990), with its still
provocative essay "Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer," and the complete text of
his now classic The Unsettling of America (1975), whose argument about the enormous
ecological, economic, and human costs of industrial agriculture has, as the author
notes, "not had the happy fate of being proved wrong." Berry's essays remain timely,
even urgent today, and will resonate with anyone interested in our relationship to
the natural world and especially with a younger, politically engaged generation invested
in the future welfare of the planet
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Shoemaker, Jack (1946-....). Éditeur scientifique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781598536065. - ISBN 1598536060 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45732268n
Notice n° :
FRBNF45732268
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : From The long-legged house (1969). The rise ; The long-legged house ; A native hill
; From The hidden wound (1970). Chapters 4 through 8 ; From A continuous harmony
(1972). Think little ; Discipline and hope ; In defense of literacy ; From Recollected
essays (1981). The making of a marginal farm ; The unsettling of America ; From
The gift of good land (1981). Horse-drawn tools and the doctrine of labor saving ;
Solving for pattern ; Family work ; A few words for motherhood ; A talent for necessity
; Seven Amish farms ; The gift of good land ; From Standing by words (1983). Standing
by words ; Poetry and marriage: the use of old forms ; From Home economics (1987).
Getting along with nature ; Two economies ; The loss of the university ; Preserving
wildness ; A good farmer of the old school ; From What are people for? (1990). Damage
; Wallace Stegner and the great community ; Writer and region ; An argument for diversity
; The pleasures of eating ; The work of local culture ; Why I am not going to buy
a computer ; Feminism, the body, and the machine ; Word and flesh ; Nature as measure.
