Stories of Snow and Fire: The Importance of Narrative to a Critically Pluralistic Environmental Aesthetic

Written narratives enable humans to appreciate the natural world in aesthetic terms. Firstly, narratives can galvanize for the reader a sense for another person’s experience of nature through the aesthetic representation of that experience in language. Secondly, narratives can encode and document fo...

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Main Author: John Charles Ryan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-03-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/2/1/99