The Environmental Imagination
Professor William Stowe (wstowe; x3627)
Webboard
Course
requirements
Subject;
questions; goals; problems
| Wednesday, September 5: Introduction: | Bierstadt paintings on line: Audubon prints on line: |
| Friday, September 7: Looking at Landscape | in class: introductions and finish discussing poems from first
class
read: Meinig, "The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same Scene" informal writing assignment |
| Wednesday, September12: Landscape | Discuss Meinig and informal writing assignment on Foss Hill |
| Friday, September 14: Versions of "Nature": Romantic, Anti-Romantic, Post-Romantic | Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey" (on-line
text)
Oates, excerpt from "Against Nature" McKibben, excerpt from The End of Nature |
| Wednesday, September 19: Cosmologies (A) | Genesis 1-3
Francis of Assisi, "Canticle of the Sun" Native American creation myths and songs of the earth Bruchac, "The Circle is the Way to See" Silko, "Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination" excerpt Creation myth website |
| Friday, September 21:Versions of "Nature": Environmental politics (B) | Devall and Sessions, "Deep Ecology"
Foreman, "Earth First!" (Earth First! website) LaDuke, "A Society Based on Conquest Cannot be Sustained" Bullard, "Environmental Justice for All" |
| Wednesday, September 26: (A)
Friday, September 28: |
Selections from ORION (Spring 2001)
"The Place Where You Live" (7-8)Save the Monarchs website Monarchlab at the University of Minnesota Orion Society website Conferences |
| Monday, October 1: | First Paper due: original green writing
Assignment (click here) |
| Wednesday, October 3: (B) | Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (chapters 1, 2, 4, 6)
the facts on the Giant Water Bug |
| Friday, October 5: (A) | Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (chapters 8, 10, 11, 14, 15)
There are many websites on Dillard, but I haven't found a single comprehensiveone. Try a Google search on "Annie Dillard" |
| Wednesday, October 10 (B) | Lopez, Desert Notes |
| Friday, October12: (A) | Lopez, River Notes
Same web situation as for Dillard. Search "Barry Lopez". |
| Wednesday, October 17: (B) | Abbey, Desert Solitaire
"Author's Introduction"an Abbey fanpage Arches National Park desert plants |
| Friday, October 19: (A) | Abbey, Desert Solitaire
"Water" |
| Wednesday, October 24: (B) | Carson, Silent Spring
Chapters 1-5, 8, 17.Carson website |
| Friday, October 26: | Conferences: no class |
| Monday, October 29 | second paper due
assignment |
| Special Topic 1: Wilderness
Wednesday, October 31: (A) |
Nash, "A Wilderness Condition"
Thoreau, "Walking" (in New Wilderness Debate) website: Thoreau, Walden, and the Environment Olson, "Why Wilderness?" (from New Wilderness Debate) |
| Friday, November 2: (B) | Faulkner, "The Bear" (from Go Down, Moses) |
| Wednesday, November 7: (A) | Faulkner, "The Bear"
Jewett, "The White Heron" |
| Friday, November 9: (B) | The Wilderness Act of 1964 from The Great Wilderness Debate
(120-130)
National Wilderness Preservation System homepage Nelson, "An Amalgamation of Wilderness Preservation Arguments" from The Great Wilderness Debate (154-198) Cronon, "The Trouble with Wilderness" from The Great Wilderness Debate Check out the Wilderness Society webpage |
| Wednesday, November 14: (A) | Waller, "Getting Back to the Right Nature: A Reply to Cronon's
'The Trouble with Wilderness'" from The Great Wilderness Debate
Foreman, "Wilderness: From Scenery to Nature" from The Great Wilderness Debate [The Wildlands Project] Guha, "Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique," from The Great Wilderness Debate Prepare in-class debate |
| Special Topic 2: Women and Nature
Friday, November 16: (B) |
Griffin, from Woman and Nature
King Kolodny Three good ecofeminist websites: 1, 2, 3 |
| Thanksgiving Break | |
| Wednesday, November 28: (A) | Hogan, Solar Storms (1-164)
Hogan website |
| Friday, November 30 (B) | Hogan, Solar Storms |
| Wednesday, December 5 (A) | Snyder, "Place, Region, Commons" from The Practice of the Wild
Pollan, "The Idea of a Garden" from Second Nature |
| VISIONS
Friday, December 7: Cyber-Nature: Website reports |
Assignment
Earth First! website
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| ? | Final paper due at 5:00 p.m. (Assignment) |
Interesting Links
Homepage of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
Hartford Courant article on ecocriticism (12/98)
Envirolink, a huge, daunting collection of links to all kinds of environmental websites