Ecopoetics: British Nature Writing - Einzelansicht

Funktionen:

Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	WiSe 2017/18
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
Weitere Links	comment
Belegungsfrist	04.10.2017 - 10.11.2017 Belegung über PULS

Gruppe 1:

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Mi	14:00 bis 16:00	wöchentlich	18.10.2017 bis 07.02.2018	1.19.1.22		27.12.2017: Akademische Weihnachtsferien 03.01.2018: Akademische Weihnachtsferien	40

Kommentar	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. The modern environmental movement is often said to have begun with the publication of Anne Carson’s important and shocking criticism of the use of pesticides in mid-twentieth-century agricultural practice, although many literary scholars have traced the seeds of this movement back further to American nature writers of the nineteenth century such as Emerson and Thoreau. Yet Britain also has a long tradition of nature-writing that stretches back even further into the eighteenth century, when Romantic writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge advocated a return to nature as a means of redressing what they saw as the problems of urban life in the cities, rapid industrialisation and increasing poverty. This course will examine the tradition of British nature writing, beginning with the Romantic poets at the end of the eighteenth century, through to the Modernists of the early twentieth century and the rise of ecocriticism around the turn of the new millennium. Over the course of the semester, students will be asked to interrogate the ways in which the distinction between nature and culture, as well as human and nonhuman, have been represented and critiqued from the eighteenth century to the present day. In particular, we will pay attention to the role of literature as a motivating political force in attempts to address environmental concerns as we ask to what extent the ecopoetical can help to address the crises of the Anthropocene.
Literatur	Charles Darwin. Voyage of the Beagle. Penguin Classics, 1989. Ronald Johnson. The Book of the Green Man. Uniformbooks 2015. A course reader will be made available on Moodle prior to the beginning of semester.

Kommentar

Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading.

The modern environmental movement is often said to have begun with the publication of Anne Carson’s important and shocking criticism of the use of pesticides in mid-twentieth-century agricultural practice, although many literary scholars have traced the seeds of this movement back further to American nature writers of the nineteenth century such as Emerson and Thoreau. Yet Britain also has a long tradition of nature-writing that stretches back even further into the eighteenth century, when Romantic writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge advocated a return to nature as a means of redressing what they saw as the problems of urban life in the cities, rapid industrialisation and increasing poverty. This course will examine the tradition of British nature writing, beginning with the Romantic poets at the end of the eighteenth century, through to the Modernists of the early twentieth century and the rise of ecocriticism around the turn of the new millennium. Over the course of the semester, students will be asked to interrogate the ways in which the distinction between nature and culture, as well as human and nonhuman, have been represented and critiqued from the eighteenth century to the present day. In particular, we will pay attention to the role of literature as a motivating political force in attempts to address environmental concerns as we ask to what extent the ecopoetical can help to address the crises of the Anthropocene.

Literatur

Charles Darwin. Voyage of the Beagle. Penguin Classics, 1989.
Ronald Johnson. The Book of the Green Man. Uniformbooks 2015.

A course reader will be made available on Moodle prior to the beginning of semester.

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester WiSe 2017/18 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024