Thesis Submission Date
Spring 2012
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
International Relations
Second Department
Literature
Reader 1
William Ascher
Reader 2
Nicholas Warner
Rights Information
© 2012 Paige E. Costello
Terms of Use & License Information
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Abstract
This work explores how authors employ literary modes to persuade readers towards one side or another of the environmental debate and whether the works promote constructive discourse on environmental issues. It uses two seminal works from each side of the environmental discourse, Silent Spring and The Population Bomb and The Ultimate Resource and The Skeptical Environmentalist, to analyze stylistic differences and similarities, to compare public reception, and to explain the increasing polarization of environmental discourse.
Recommended Citation
Costello, Paige E., "Prose and Polarization: Environmental Literature and the Challenges to Constructive Discourse" (2012). CMC Senior Theses. Paper 388.
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/388