12/25/2022 0 Comments Phantasmic infernal biome![]() By midmorning he gingerly sidled up to the alpha female and they mated. Regardless of his opposition’s decreased numbers, though, for the second time in two days that lone wolf was whipped. For some months they’d been thirty-eight strong, but now their dispersers had founded several new and smaller packs. After his dalliance, the interloper was beaten badly again, this time by theĭruids, whose pack that season was made up mostly of lean, tough yearlings, the Druids having thinned and dispersed considerably since I saw them in the summer of 2000. But they turned out to be more flexible, as biologists have learned over the past decade, than that old adage about wolves being monogamous. This was during the breeding season, and territorial margins were a little less flexible. She was the successor to the famous #42, the Cinderella Wolf, the last of the first wolves introduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1996, and this black wolf wanted to mate with her. ![]() The day before I arrived, the lone wolf, likely a wanderer from Mollie’s Pack down near Pelican Lake, had found the alpha female of the Druids. He was chased until he intruded upon the Rose Creek Pack’s territory, where he was beaten and chased again, back into a neutral space between the zones of control. An interloper tried to gain access to the Druid Peak Pack in the valley. A drama had unfolded over the prior three days that February, one that seems appropriate to a book that examines how the nonhuman world is constantly correcting our assumptions and fantasies about it. I’m anxious to find out what wolves might gain from a book written by an English professor too often stuck inside the ivory tower. After spending a decade in libraries and conducting interviews, after the sight of wolves behind fences and perhaps a few months of man-hours in wolf country, I offer only ecocriticism. The writers of wolf books might whip their excursions to Baffin Island or the Boundary Waters beyond exhaustion in order to build their own ethos, but like Jay Robert Elhard in Wolf Tourist, I wave the flag of the wolf-watching novice. I am becoming an amateur naturalist having spent time with trained biologists and ecologists in the field, I have no delusions about the limits of my knowledge regarding the natural world. Ten years earlier I had visited Yellowstone National Park for the first time in my life. The Skull That Wakes the Spirits: Cormac McCarthy’s The CrossingĪt dawn on a February morning in 2004 I stood in the Lamar Valley watching wolves. She-Wolves: Wildness, Domesticity, and the Woman Warrior The Fall of the Wild: Jack London’s Dog Stories ![]() The Twins and the Timber Wolves: A Case Study Wolf Channel: Ritual Masks as Visual Literature The Loophole: Lycanthropy, Shape-Shifting, and the Werewolf Race P A R T I I I Werewolf, Wolf-Child, She-Wolf: Race, Class, and Gender Reconsidered Orion’s Dogs (In Which a Wolf Crosses the Sky) The Sea Wolf (In Which a Wolf Crosses the Water) P A R T I I The Ghost Wolf: A Mythic Historiography Intermediate Corporeality: The Average Wolf The Bioregional and Geopolitical Wolf Book The Real, the Corporeal, and the Ghost Wolfīasic Corporeality: Wolf Biologists and Nonfiction ![]() ![]() Binding materials were selected for strength and durability. ps169.m88r63 2009 810.93629773-dc22 2008050299 The paper used in this book is a recycled stock made from 30 percent post-consumer waste materials and meets the requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (r2002). 5. Humananimal relationships in literature. American literature-History and criticism. Includes bibliographical references and index. K., 1964– Wolves and the wolf myth in American literature / S.K. University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 usa Copyright © 2009 by University of Nevada Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Design by Kathleen Szawiola Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Robisch, S. Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature
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