“If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a
landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my
favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.”
-- Charles Baudelaire

Monday, January 10, 2011


ENGL 700 Studies in Literature, Culture and Place
Winter 2011

Jan.             6                                    Introduction: course syllabus, expectations, and course texts

            11                                    Unfurled: Keahey ‘Preface’, Baldwin, Boschman, Kane, Wigmore

            13                                    Unfurled: Transken, de Leeuw, student choices

            18                                    Open Wide: McKay “Great Flint Singing,” Livesay, Wilkinson, Layton,

            20                                    Open Wide: Page, Purdy, Webb, Blue Cloud, Newlove, P. Lane, Wah           
                       
            25                                    Open Wide: McKay, Marlatt, Belford, Bringhurst, Lilburn, Mouré

            27                                    Open Wide: student choices; Regreen: McKay, Queryas, Wong
                                               
           
Feb.            1                                    Regreen: Robertson, Christakos, rawlings, Bok, student choices
                                                                                    (poetry presentation proposal sign up)
            3                                    Ecocriticism Reader: Glotfelty ‘Introduction’, Manes,Turner, Byerly

            8                                    Ecocriticism Reader: Ruekert, Campbell, Slovic, Love

            10                                    Ecocriticism Reader: student choices; Place: a short introduction

                                                Break

            22                                    Place: a short introduction
                                                                                    (theory presentation proposal sign up)
            24                                    Poetry presentations
           

March             1                                    Poetry presentations

            3                                    Poetry presentations
                                   
            8                                    The Three Ecologies

            10                                    The Three Ecologies

            15                                    Theory presentations

            17                                    Theory presentations
                       
            22                                    Theory presentations

24                                    TBA

29                                    class field trip

31                                    paper workshopping

April            5                                    “the future of ecocriticism and place theory”
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