Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America

by Carl George Herndl, Carl Herndl, Carl G. Herndl

Green Culture is about an idea--the environment--and how we talk about it. Is the environment something simply "out there" in the world to be found? Or is it, as this book suggests, a concept and a set of cultural values constructed by our use of language? That language, in its many forms, comes under scrutiny here, as distinguished authors writing from a variety of perspectives consider how our idea and our discussion of the environment evolve...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299149943
• ISBN13: 9780299149949
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"