32212
Advanced seminar
"Writing Nature": Environmental Ethics in North American Literatures
Stefanie Müller
Information for students
If you want to participate in and receive credits for this class, please take note of the following conditions for participation:
1. Register on Blackboard for this class as soon as possible so that you access to the material that we will discuss in session one (April 16).
2. The shopping period is limited to week one. You must commit to the class by our second meeting.
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The tradition of nature writing in the United States is classically said to begin with Thoreau: a young white gentleman seeking solitude in nature, apart from the hustle-bustle of the market revolution. As traditions tend to do, this narrative has shaped the development and the study of the genre, and for a long time, white male writers dominated the canon. In this class, we will explore an alternative tradition to get a better understanding of the development of nature writing in the 20th and 21st century. We will discuss texts by Camille Dungy, Rebecca Solnit, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, and many others, with an eye to how they write within and beyond the tradition. We will consider them also as memoirs and briefly delve into the theory on life writing. Moreover, we will pay special attention to the land ethics (and sometimes water ethics) that emerge from the texts: the relationship to non-human environments they describe. For this purpose, we will also discuss more theoretically minded texts, such as by Max Liboiron and Kyle Powys Whyte.
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14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2025-04-16 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2025-04-23 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2025-04-30 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2025-05-07 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2025-05-14 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2025-05-21 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2025-05-28 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2025-06-04 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2025-06-11 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2025-06-18 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2025-06-25 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2025-07-02 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2025-07-09 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2025-07-16 08:00 - 10:00
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