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Minds in the Cave: Insects as Metaphors for Place and Loss 洞穴中的心灵:以昆虫作为地方与失落的隐喻

Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) Pub Date : 2013-09-06 DOI: 10.60162/swamphen.3.10602

H. Nankin

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The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, Place 生物地域想象:文学、生态、地域

Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) Pub Date : 2013-05-09 DOI: 10.60162/swamphen.2.10600

S. Harris

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The Soul of the Desert 沙漠之魂

Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) Pub Date : 2013-05-09 DOI: 10.60162/swamphen.2.10599

R. Blair

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Ecocritics have never been Green 生态批评家从来都不是绿色的

Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) Pub Date : 2013-04-10 DOI: 10.60162/swamphen.2.10591

T. Bristow, S. Harris

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What we Leave Behind: Exploring Multiple Environmental Legacies in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes 我们留下了什么:探索莱斯利·马蒙·西尔科的沙丘花园中的多重环境遗产

Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) Pub Date : 2013-04-10 DOI: 10.60162/swamphen.2.10593

R. Blair

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Water Wars, Talking Water: Art, Activism and the Eco-politics of Whitman’s Walk to the Water 《水的战争，水的对话:惠特曼走向水的艺术，行动主义和生态政治》

Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) Pub Date : 2013-04-10 DOI: 10.60162/swamphen.2.10595

Stephen Harris

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International Regionalism as American-Australian Dialogue: William James and Henry David Thoreau in John Kinsella’s Jam Tree Gully Poems 作为美澳对话的国际地域主义:威廉·詹姆斯和亨利·大卫·梭罗在约翰·金塞拉《果酱树沟诗》中的表现

Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) Pub Date : 2013-04-09 DOI: 10.60162/swamphen.2.10596

T. Bristow

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'Field Guide to 1788': The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia (2011) 《1788年实地考察指南》:地球上最大的地产:土著人如何创造澳大利亚(2011)

Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) Pub Date : 2013-04-08 DOI: 10.60162/swamphen.2.10598

C. Dawson

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More Real than Real: The Weird Localism of Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Wendell Berry 比真实更真实:Ralph Eugene Meatyard和Wendell Berry怪异的地方主义

Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) Pub Date : 2013-04-08 DOI: 10.60162/swamphen.2.10597

B. Wallis

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‘The Name Blossomed’: Landscapes, Habitats and the Botanical Poetry of South-West Australia “花开的名字”:澳大利亚西南部的风景、栖息地和植物诗歌

Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) Pub Date : 2013-04-08 DOI: 10.60162/swamphen.2.10594

Johnston Ryan

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