The Coyote Is Not Inside You: Gary Snyder’s Ecopoetry and Neo-Aristotelian Thought
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عنوان ژورنال: Brno Studies in English
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0524-6881,1805-0867
DOI: 10.5817/bse2013-1-14