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ENGL277
"This Smiling Country"?: Versions of Pastoral in U.S. Literature
ENGL277 SP
Crosslistings: AMST210, CHUM277
Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Thu Apr 17 05:00:17 EDT 1997
)
Section Limit Enrollment Available
01 12 0 12
Settlement and wilderness, city and country, "civilization"
and "the Territories," "Nature" and culture, machines and
gardens, "ecocriticism." From colonial times to the present,
writers of all kinds--farmers, explorers, naturalists,
novelists, anthropologists, essayists, poets, scholars, and
critics--have sought or invented versions of pastoral
arcadia in North America. Why reimagine a Grecian paradise
in "Kentucky"? Why people a Georgia valley with dryads and
nymphs? Why build a cabin at Walden Pond or spend a season
at Tinker Creek? Why move to the suburbs or vacation in the
"bosom of Nature"? These are some of the questions we will
try to answer in this course on the place of the "pastoral"
in U.S. literature, culture, and criticism.
MAJOR READINGS
Literary texts by Crevecoeur, Jefferson,
Filson/Boone, Bartram, Emerson, Thoreau, Twain, Chesnutt,
Jewett, Wharton, Hemingway, Hurston, Frost, Snyder, Silko,
Abbey.
Critical and historical texts by D.H. Lawrence, Leo Marx,
Henry Nash Smith, Annette Kolodny, Lawrence Buell.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Frequent short papers and a
final project.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
This course in an
American Studies Junior Colloquium. Permission of
Instructor forms will be distributed to Junior AMST majors
on a first-come-first-served basis in the AMST office
beginning on the first day of Preregistration. Others will
be admitted during Drop/Add if space is available.
This course counts toward the English Department's
historicity requirement.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting
or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the
first class, they will be dropped from the class list.
NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form
to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA ENGL
Prerequisites:
None
- Section 01
- Stowe, W
- Times: M.W.... 2:40PM;
- Grading Mode: A/F
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 0, Jr: 1, So: 0, Fr: 0
- Major Preference Given
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
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