Full Product Details
Author: Spencer Schaffner
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.331kg
ISBN: 9781558498860
ISBN 10: 1558498869
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 30 June 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Clearly and engagingly written, Binocular Vision is a work of impressive scope and subtlety that will make an important contribution to the growing field of environmental cultural studies.--Daniel J. Philippon, author of Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement This book forced me to take a more critical look at field guides and what their role can and should be. And that made it very worth reading.--The Birder's Library Binocular Vision is a field guide to field guides that takes a novel perspective on how we think about and interact with the world around us.--The Guardian Spencer Schaffner's Binocular Vision starts from the simple and important observation that field guides--like texts--'do cultural work.' Behind and beyond their stated purposes, field guides affirm assumptions and create expectations, and many of the conclusions the book offers will be an unsettling surprise to many of its birding readers.--aba.org Blog
Clearly and engagingly written, Binocular Vision is a work of impressive scope and subtlety that will make an important contribution to the growing field of environmental cultural studies.--Daniel J. Philippon, author of Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental MovementThis book forced me to take a more critical look at field guides and what their role can and should be. And that made it very worth reading.--The Birder's LibraryBinocular Vision is a field guide to field guides that takes a novel perspective on how we think about and interact with the world around us.--The GuardianSpencer Schaffner's Binocular Vision starts from the simple and important observation that field guides--like texts--'do cultural work.' Behind and beyond their stated purposes, field guides affirm assumptions and create expectations, and many of the conclusions the book offers will be an unsettling surprise to many of its birding readers.--aba.org Blog
Author Information
Spencer Schaffner is assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
