Coyote In The Maze

Peter Quigley is an editor of the journal Jeffers Studies and chair of the Humanities and Social Science Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Introduction: Heraclitean Fire, Bakhtinian Laughter, and the Limits of Literary Judgment ~ Peter Quigley Foreword I: The Roots of Abbey's Social Critique ~ Edward S. Twining Foreword II: Magpie ~ SueEllen Campbell \u0022I'm a humanist\u0022: The Poetic Past in Desert Solitaire ~ David J. Rothman Who Is the Lone Ranger?: Edwars Abbey as Philosopher ~ David Rothenberg Nativity, Domesticity, and Exile in Edward Abbey's \u0022One True Home\u0022 ~ Tom Lynch Rage against the Machine: Edward Abbey and Neo-Luddite Thought ~ Paul Lindholdt Edward Abbey's Inadvertent Postmodernism: Theory, Autobiography, and Politics ~ William Chaloupka Abbey as Anarchist ~ Harold Alderman \u0022Getting the Desert into a Book\u0022: Nature Writing and the Problems of Representation in a Postmodern World ~ Claire Lawrence Surviving Doom and Gloom: Edward Abbey's Desert Comedies ~ Rebecca Raglon Nietzschean Themes in the Works of Edward Abbey ~ Steve Norwick Edward Abbey's Cow ~ Barbara Barney Nelson Edward Abbey and Gender ~ Paul T. Bryant The Life of the Author: Emerson, Foucault, and the Reading of Edward Abbey's Journals ~ David Copland Morris From the Banks of the Illisus to the Arches of Utah: Edward Abbey as Noble Rhetorician ~ Bryan L. Moore Biocentrism and Green Existentialism: Edward Abbey's Conflicting Conceptualizations of Nature ~ Werner Bigell The Politics and Aesthetics of a Hopeful Anarchism: Edward Abbey's Postmodern \u0022Angelic Demonology\u0022 ~ Peter Quigley The Politics of Leisure: \u0022Industrial Tourism\u0022 in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire ~ Joseph A. Papa, Jr. List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

"The first comprehensive collection of literary criticism devoted to Abbey's challenging corpus of fiction and nonfiction."--The Rough Draft "This collection...couldn't be more timely."--American Bookseller