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The Environmental Imagination: Green Writing and Ecocriticsm
ENGL112 SP
This course will study the relations between literature, literary criticism, and cultural criticism on the one hand and the natural environment on the other. Drawing on the works of nature writers (many of whom now
prefer to be called "green writers")
from John Muir to Terry Tempest Williams, and on contemporary commentary on these writers and on the environmental movement in general, we will discuss such topics as the ideology of wilderness, pollution and politics,
landscape and environment, and natur
e in the marketplace.
MAJOR READINGS
Texts may include: Cronon, UNCOMMON GROUND Glotfelty and Fromm, THE ECOCRITICISM READER Buell, THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION Muir, MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRAS Austin, LAND OF LITTLE RAIN Bass, IN THE YAAK
Williams, REFUGE Carson,
SILENT SPRING Lopez, RIVER NOTES Poems, stories, and essays by such writers as Leslie Marmon Silko, Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey, Gary Snyder, Simon Ortiz, Pattiann Rogers, John McPhee.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Frequent informal writing and three to four mid-length papers will be assigned.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
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:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
Last Updated on MAR-24-2000
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