Abstract
Against the backdrop of the ecological crisis spawned by modern progress, literature has renewed its representations of the Golden Age and of the lost organic community. The anglo-argentine writer W. H. Hudson, in his novel Green Mansions (1904), offers an early exploration of today's greatest ecological catastrophe: the destruction of South America's rainforests, pitting the idealistic but destructive invasion of Abel, the modern man, against the state of nature of the bird-girl Rima. Rima's call can still he heard at the beginning of the third millenium after Christ.
| Translated title of the contribution | The song of the earth: The state of nature in W. H. Hudson |
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| Original language | Spanish |
| Pages (from-to) | 15-31 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana |
| Volume | 33 |
| State | Published - 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Ecology
- Golden Age
- Modernity
- Myth
- Nature
- Rainforests
- W. H. Hudson
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Literature and Literary Theory