Mary Holland delves into the intricate wonders of the natural world and its inhabitants. Her work, often conveyed through writing and photography, emphasizes environmental education and sharing the marvels of the wild. Through her prose and visual artistry, she reveals fascinating details about ecosystems and the creatures within them. Her approach enriches readers with an understanding of nature's complexity and beauty.
Follow a young red fox during its early months of life as it explores the world. At about one month old, it ventures out of its den for the first time, learning to hunt through play and its senses. Witness the transformation from a kit to a young fox as it grows.
Literature has never looked weirder--full of images, colors, gadgets, and footnotes, and violating established norms of character, plot, and narrative structure. Yet over the last 30 years, critics have coined more than 20 new “realisms” in their attempts to describe it. What makes this decidedly unorthodox literature “realistic”? And if it is, then what does “realism” mean anymore? Examining literature by dozens of writers, and over a century of theory and criticism about realism, The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism sorts through the current critical confusion to illustrate how our ideas about what is real and how best to depict it have changed dramatically, especially in recent years. Along the way, Mary K. Holland guides the reader on a lively tour through the landscape of contemporary literary studies--taking in metafiction, ideology, posthumanism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism--with forays into quantum mechanics, new materialism, and Buddhism as well, to give us entirely new ways of viewing how humans use language to make sense of--and to make--the world.