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ENGL277
Versions of Pastoral
ENGL277 SP
Crosslistings: AMST210
Not Currently Offered
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, 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 through noon on Thursday,
November 4. If there is still space, others will be
admitted beginning at that time.
This course counts toward the English Department's
historical knowledge 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
Last Updated on MAR-22-1999
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