Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire. (Information from Wikipedia)
Website: www.abbeyweb.net/
Articles in Western American Literature:
Resurrection after the “Blue Death”Literature, Politics, and Ecological Redemption at Glen Canyon, by Laura Smith
New Materialism, Ecomysticism, and the Resolution of Paradox in Edward Abbey, by David Tagnani
Searching for God or Medusa through Allusion in Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, by David D. Joplin
Artistry of Hunger: Desire and Appetite in Desert Solitaire, by Joy Kennedy
Deterministic Chaos in Ed Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, by Rod Romesburg
Desert Solitaire and the Literary Memory of an Imagined Place, by Jared Farmer
Ontology vs. Epistemology: The Philosophical Dynamic Driving Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, by Russell Burrows
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order: Twentieth-Century American Nature Writer, by Ann Ronald
Edward Abbey and the Romance of Wilderness, by John R. Knott
The Primitive and the Civilized in Western Fiction, by Levi S. Peterson
Edward Abbey, Appalachian Easterner, by James M. Cahalan
The Structure and Unity of Desert Solitaire, by Paul T. Bryant
Celebration and Irony: The Polyphonic Voice of Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, by David Copland Morris
Cactus Ed’s Moveable Feast: A Preview of Confessions of a Barbarian: Pages from the Journals of Edward Abbey, by David Petersen
Edward Abbey, Anarchism and the Environment, by Jack Loeffler
Echoes, Allusions, and “Reality” in Hayduke Lives! by Paul T. Bryant
Edward Abbey, 1927–1989, by James R. Hepworth
Edward Abbey and Environmental Quixoticism, by Paul T. Bryant
The Hill Beyond the City: Elements of the Jeremiad in Edward Abbey’s “Down the River with Henry Thoreau,” by John A. Murray
Closing and Opening Western American Fiction: The Reader in The Brave Cowboy, by Stephen Tatum
“Moderate Extremism”: Edward Abbey and “The Moon-Eyed Horse,” by Jerry A. Herndon
Edward Abbey: Western Philosopher, or How to be a “Happy Hopi Hippie,” by Tom Pilkington
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