Artifacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Tom Lynch and Susan N. Maher 1 “The Bay of Broken Things”: The Experience 15 of Loss in the Work of Loren Eiseley Susan Hanson 2 “Never Going to Cease My Wandering”: 35 Loren Eiseley and the American Hobo M. Catherine Downs 3 “The Places Below”: Mapping the Invisible 55 Universe in Loren Eiseley’s Plains Essays Susan N. Maher 4 Unearthing Urban Nature: 77 Loren Eiseley’s Explorations of City and Suburb Michael A. Bryson 5 Anthropomorphizing the Essay: 99 Loren Eiseley’s Representations of Animals Kathleen Boardman 6 “The Borders between Us”: 123 Loren Eiseley’s Ecopoetics Tom Lynch 7 Lessons of an Interdisciplinary Life: 143 Loren Eiseley’s Rhetoric of Profundity in Popular Science Writing and “Two Cultures” Pedagogy Pamela Gossin 8 Artifact and Idea: 173 Loren Eiseley’s Poetic Undermining of C. P. Snow Mary Ellen Pitts 9 The Spirit of Synecdoche: Order and Chaos 183 Contend in the Metaphors of Loren Eiseley Jacqueline Cason 10 In a Dark Wood: Dante, Eiseley, and the 209 Ecology of Redemption Anthony Lioi 11 Emerson and Eiseley: Two Religious Visions 235 Jonathan Weidenbaum 12 Epic Narratives of Evolution: 251 John Burroughs and Loren Eiseley Stephen Mercier 13 Eiseley and Jung: 271 Structuralism’s Invisible Pyramid John Nizalowski 14 From the American Great Plains to the 293 Steppes of Russia: Loren Eiseley Transplanted Dimitri N. Breschinsky Works Cited 319 Contributors 335 Index 339 ...