Mar 29, 2024  
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LIT 373W - Literature and the Environment

3 credits (3 hrs Lec)
This course examines how literature features our natural environment. It focuses on the ways in which an awareness of environment in literature informs us about cultural assumptions, peoples and their locality, conceptions of the human and likewise of the nonhuman and the inanimate, considerations of the unprecedented destruction of our planet, gender, economic, and racial issues, and finally the ways our thinking about the environment shapes how we know ourselves and the world. We will consider a range of work-poetry, nature writing, and fictional prose-from a variety of writers mostly from the Americas. We will also consider a series of critical texts that propose new theoretical models to think the relationship between literature and the environment.

Prerequisite(s): WRIT 101   or WRIT 121  



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