ENGL4835: Environmental Literature (60349)
Menke, Richard
MWF
10:20 AM
Park Hall 136
This course will examine a wide range of texts that we could think of as environmental literature—classic “nature writing” and Romantic poetry; religious creation stories and classical poetry; realistic fiction, memoir, and social critique. We will be especially interested in the ways that these works compel us to imagine and reimagine extra-human nature and the situation of humanity—how reading about the extra-human world might help change how we understand it and live in it.
MAIN TEXTS
- Online readings (available on eLC)
- Camille Dungee, ed., Black Nature (UGA Press, 978-0820334318)
- Imbolo Mibue, How Beautiful We Were: A Novel (Random House, 978-0593132425 in hardcover; paperback coming in February 2022)
- Richard Powers, The Overstory: A Novel (Norton, 978-0393356687)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future (Orbit, 978-0316300148)
- Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights, 978-0872866690)
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings (Norton, 978-0-393-93090-0)
