After a couple of weeks trope-ing through ecocriticism, let's get down to the real theorizing.  On tap for this week:  feminist theory.  

Please post your questions, comments, and concerns here. 

As a reminder: while I'd obviously prefer that you read everything, if forced to economize, here are some suggestions.  

1) After reading chapter two in Westling's The Green Breast of the New World, choose from either chapter 3 or 5. 

2) Feel free to skim through the data of Warren's first chapter and focus instead on her second chapter.  

3) Contrary to what I suggested in class, I think you should read Sandilands carefully. Her chapter is the most nuanced of the readings; and, as such, she assumes a bit of background knowledge, but she also discusses directly some of the key questions at issue that we'll want to address in class.     

Until Wednesday,

kevin

out of woods

From the wilderness back to the city, this week we imagine apocalypse, toxic events, and we take stock of the environmental justice challenge to ecocentric ecocriticism.  

Please post your comments here.  

Also, if you've missed the last two class sessions, there is still a fancy, green course reader in my departmental mailbox.  Come pick it up!  

Until Wednesday,

kevin

into the wilderness

This week our attention turns outward from the (relatively) narrow confines of the pastoral literary tradition toward the Big Woods and all its messy problems.  As always, please leave your questions and commentary in the comment section here.  It'd be really good for me to have these posted by 3:15 on Wednesday, so I can read and prepare based on your interests.   

If you missed the last class session, you may not know that the bulk of the reading can be found in our fancy new course reader.  I've left copies of the green, plastic-bound collection in my departmental mailbox.  Please stop by and pick one up.   

kevin

pastoral comments

Like last week, I'd like to use these questions and answers to frame the second half of our discussion.  So, once again, please keep up the good work.      

I'll see you Wednesday--in the  meantime, get outside and enjoy this snow!