The transformation of nature in art

In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much modern art: “How could he explain to them his prayer / that natu...

Many critics have approached Terrence Malick’s work from a philosophical perspective, arguing that his films express philosophy through cinema. With their remarkable images of natu...

Nature and Literary Studies supplies a broad and accessible overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in modern literary studies. Drawing together the work of le...

Chapter 26 covers how Sir Francis Galton was the first to apply the Shakespearian phrase “nature and nurture” to human individual differences. The so-called nature–nurture debate b...

Does human nature constrain social and political change? Or do social and political changes transform human nature? Why Human Nature Matters argues that instead of being mutually e...

In this concluding chapter, we draw together the book’s discussion. This chapter provides a retrospective of the book and the main arguments, and responds to three core questions o...

Within the context of the Age of the Anthropocene, this book outlines the existential preconditions for understanding the language of nature. Andrew Fuyarchuk use...

An accessible ePub edition is available here   With 80% of wastewater globally discharged untreated and non-renewable energy resources rapidly depleti...