Dana Phillips earned a doctorate in English at Duke University. He has published articles on American literature in Raritan, American Literature, Arizona Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Literature and New Literary History.
"Readers concerned that the community of nature writers and
ecocritics has become too chummy and self-congratulatory...need
look no further than Dana Phillips's witty and provocative new book
for an astringent remedy.... Reading The Truth of Ecology...will
make you stronger, better able to appreciate and evaluate the
literature that explores our relationship with nature."--Orion
"The grand project of this text is to urge writers to question the
gaps between experience and language, perception and description;
these are worthwhile portals of inquiry for writers working in
landscapes that seem to have a priori discrete
identities."--Western American Literature
"The Truth of Ecology will help ecocriticism come of age. Dana
Phillips is a tough, challenging, and unsentimental reader. Even
those who disagree with him will agree that he adds two crucial
elements to current discourse in the environmental humanities: a
powerful philosophical armature and a genuinely sophisticated
understanding of ecological science and its discontents."--William
Howarth, Princeton University
"The Truth of Ecology is a fiercely interesting book at least in
part because it is quite fierce. Dana Phillips takes on the very
young tradition of ecocriticism, which he finds already moldy. He
declares a pox on both the houses of nature-as-text and
nature-as-the-world-out-there. But if he has a sharp eye for an
argument, Mr. Phillips is also immensely learned, balanced,
generous. Nature-writing is the most classic American literature
and The
Truth of Ecology does it full and rare justice."--Myra Jehlen,
Rutgers University
"The Truth of Ecology provides a penetrating assessment of
contemporary conceptions of nature and ecology, which have been
plagued by a combination of mysticism and literalism. Dana Phillips
is setting ecocriticism on the right track: toward a theoretically
rigorous, truly interdisciplinary, and imaginative discussion of
the entanglements of nature and culture."--Bonnie Costello, Boston
University
"The Truth of Ecology is a significant intervention in the ongoing
nature/culture debates. Within its original contributions to these
debates, Dana Phillips's book raises important questions abut the
relationship between science and the humanities through querying
the function of theory in both these fields. It is a polemic of
exceptional theoretical rigor and imagination, written with a fine
sense of style, of which wit is a welcome component. Whether
or not one is interested in ecocriticism per se, the book has a lot
to offer in its wide ranging interests and is a pleasure to read
for the lively critical intelligence therein engaged."--Eric
Cheyfitz,
University of Pennsylvania
"Readers concerned that the community of nature writers and
ecocritics has become too chummy and self-congratulatory...need
look no further than Dana Phillips's witty and provocative new book
for an astringent remedy.... Reading The Truth of Ecology...will
make you stronger, better able to appreciate and evaluate the
literature that explores our relationship with nature."--Orion
"The Truth of Ecology will help ecocriticism come of age. Dana
Phillips is a tough, challenging, and unsentimental reader. Even
those who disagree with him will agree that he adds two crucial
elements to current discourse in the environmental humanities: a
powerful philosophical armature and a genuinely sophisticated
understanding of ecological science and its discontents."--William
Howarth, Princeton University
"The grand project of this text is to urge writers to question the
gaps between experience and language, perception and description;
these are worthwhile portals of inquiry for writers working in
landscapes that seem to have a priori discrete
identities."--Western American Literature
"The Truth of Ecology is a fiercely interesting book at least in
part because it is quite fierce. Dana Phillips takes on the very
young tradition of ecocriticism, which he finds already moldy. He
declares a pox on both the houses of nature-as-text and
nature-as-the-world-out-there. But if he has a sharp eye for an
argument, Mr. Phillips is also immensely learned, balanced,
generous. Nature-writing is the most classic American literature
and The
Truth of Ecology does it full and rare justice."--Myra Jehlen,
Rutgers University
"The Truth of Ecology provides a penetrating assessment of
contemporary conceptions of nature and ecology, which have been
plagued by a combination of mysticism and literalism. Dana Phillips
is setting ecocriticism on the right track: toward a theoretically
rigorous, truly interdisciplinary, and imaginative discussion of
the entanglements of nature and culture."--Bonnie Costello, Boston
University
"The Truth of Ecology is a significant intervention in the ongoing
nature/culture debates. Within its original contributions to these
debates, Dana Phillips's book raises important questions abut the
relationship between science and the humanities through querying
the function of theory in both these fields. It is a polemic of
exceptional theoretical rigor and imagination, written with a fine
sense of style, of which wit is a welcome component. Whether
or not one is interested in ecocriticism per se, the book has a lot
to offer in its wide ranging interests and is a pleasure to read
for the lively critical intelligence therein engaged."--Eric
Cheyfitz,
University of Pennsylvania
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