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Vorlesung: The United States as 'Nature's Nation': An Introduction to Ecocriticism- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer
- Angaben
- Vorlesung
2 SWS, Schein, BA-Studierende: 2 ECTS bei Teilnahme; 4 ECTS bei Teilnahme und bestandener Klausur
Zeit und Ort: Do 12:15 - 13:45, U5/217
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Please register by e-mail (sylvia.mayer@split.uni-bamberg.de) until October 13, 2007
- Inhalt
- This series of lectures provides a survey of the cultural history of nature in the USA. The lectures address the role that various concepts of nature and environment have played in terms of defining the American experience, including the specific American aesthetic response to nature and an increasingly endangered natural environment. Among the key concepts addressed are the European American concepts of ‘wilderness’, ‘pastoral’ and ‘sublime’, but also the animistic concept of nature developed by many Native American peoples. The survey will reach back to the colonial period starting in the early 17th century, emphasis will, however, be put on the 20th and 21st centuries. At stake will be literary and non-literary texts as well as the visual media.
Theoretically and methodologically the lectures originate in the still fairly young scholarly field of ‘ecocriticism’, i.e. ecologically oriented literary and cultural studies, which have pointed out the urgency of addressing the forms and functions of literary and other cultural representations of nature in an era of environmental crisis.
The (tentative) syllabus will be made available on “Virtueller Campus” by the beginning of September 2007.
Hinweis: Es besteht keine Verpflichtung, zusätzlich zur Vorlesung die Übung zum selben Thema zu besuchen. Die Übung stellt eine nützliche Ergänzung dar, ist jedoch als separate, eigenständige Lehrveranstaltung zu sehen.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- For those students who would like to participate in this lecture class more actively, the reading or watching of the following texts and films is recommended:
Literary texts (in alphabetical order): Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower; Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia; Rachel Carson, Silent Spring; Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer; Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature”; Robert Frost, “Mowing”; Linda Hogan, Mean Spirit; Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia; Thomas King, Truth & Bright Water; Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
Films: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth (2006); The Day After Tomorrow (2004, dir. Roland Emmerich).
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 4
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 40
- Institution: Professur für Anglistik und Amerikanistik mit Schwerpunkt Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
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