Praise for Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt
In this beautiful work of narrative scholarship, Ryan Day succeeds in probing both the intimate and planetary dimensions of green Shakespeare studies and environmental humanities theory. Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt is an impressively learned and engaging book, demonstrating the unexpected relevance of Shakespeare to a wide range of contemporary environmental writing and the vibrant potential of ecocriticism.
-Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, author of Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility
In rich thoughtful prose, Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt sets us deep with Ovid in the roots of our literary heritage, lifts us high in leafy outgrowths of Shakespeare and our shared critical consciousness, and leaves us desolate in the hard-wired wasteland of Atwood’s post-apocalyptic Oryx and Crake.
-Andrew J. Power, University of Sharjah, co-editor, Early Shakespeare and Late Shakespeare
This elegant and accomplished excercise in interwoven narrative history draws fascinating parallels between literature and biology-from the butterflies of Barbara Kingsolver to tumors in The Tempest-and yet it ultimately delivers, with surprising prescience, an entirely new way of thinking about the present
-Rachel Corbett, author of You Must Change your Life: The story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
Praise for Big Sky
Sprawling in voice, locale, and era, Big Sky tackles the big questions, those where ideology meets biology meets art meets metaphysics. They all converge in this timely debut novel, with its characters shaped, however unwittingly, by a century-old, true life tragedy that may ammount ultimately to the Rosetta Stone of America.
-D.R. Haney, author Banned for Life, Subversia, and Death Valley Superstars
Evocative and precise. There’s a whole world here, and you’re drawn in instantly
-Nick Burd, author The Vast Fields of Ordinary
Green & Grey
Timothy Ryan Day’s first collection of poetry is dedicated to the shifting landscape between the human mind and environment it occupies.