Abstract
Terry Tempest Williams, in Finding Beauty in a Broken World employs literary techniques that suggest dislocations and relocations of the human subject in ethical modes of being. Through narrative techniques, multidisciplinary language, and themes of conversation, gift-exchange, listening and response, Williams reflects ecological humanist mosaics, suggesting cooperative regeneration—an intersection of material beings facilitated by an ethical human imagination that listens, receives, and gives toward patterns of beauty, including, but not limited to, being human in a collective world. This eco-critical analysis of Williams’s work affirms the human being in post-humanist philosophy and repositions relational Romanticism for the 21st century.
Degree
MA
College and Department
Humanities; English
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BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Gill, Sharman Tullis, "Ecological Humanist Mosaics: Dislocations and Relocations of the Autobiographical Self in Terry Tempest Williams's Finding Beauty in a Broken World" (2015). Theses and Dissertations. 5945.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5945
Date Submitted
2015-06-01
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd7820
Keywords
Anthropocene, Romanticism, ecological humanism, Terry Tempest Williams, Novalis, environmental ethics, eco-criticism, post-humanism
Language
english