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5James S. Hans, The Value(s) of Literature, Albany: SUNY Press, 1990, p. 5.
6Scott Slovic,“Ecocriticism: Storytelling, Values, Communication, Contact,”1994 Western Literature Association Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah.
7Patrick D. Murphy, Farther A field in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, p. 11.
8William Howarth, "Some Principles of Ecocriticism", Cheryll Glotfelty & Harold Fromm(ed.), The Ecocriticism Reader; Landmarks in Literary Ecology, Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1996, p. 69.
9Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996, p. 430,
10Laurence Buell, Writing for an Endangered World; Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001, pp. 22--23.
