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Baker, Bernard. "Responsibly at Home: Wendell Berry's Quest for the Simple Life," Case Western Reserve University, January 1992. Advisor: Park Dixon Goist (2,12,7)
Wendell Berry, Kentucky poet, essayist, novelist, farmer, professor, and conservationist, is an eloquent contemporary spokesperson for one of the most enduring visions in American culture, the simple life. Berry combines elements from three distinct simple life traditions in American thought—agrarianism, romanticism, and environmentalism—to produce a coherent philosophy of simplicity. The dissertation sketches the diverse traditions from which Berry draws inspiration, and then analyzes his works for the elucidation of his simple life vision. It examines Berry’s strident critique of contemporary American culture and explores some of the implications of the alternative he poses.
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