Nature Description: Literature and Theory
ENGL 389
Spring 2022 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
SISP 389 |
What happens to the world when we describe it using language? What happens to language? How much can we really know about nature as it is, in itself, outside of our representational strategies? In what ways do different kinds of description--and the often unexamined assumptions that structure them--limit what we can see? Do different modes of description and figurative language do different things to the world? And what do they do *in* the world--what ideological or political work? How, in short, does language reflect, touch, and transform the material world?
This course will grapple with big questions about nature, language, race, class, history, science, literary form, and human minds--as well as the complex interactions between and among these. We will seek answers by attending closely to both literary and theoretical texts. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
Major Readings:
Literary texts by Anne Finch, Louise Glück, Robert MacFarlane, Tommy Pico, Richard Powers, Craig Santos Perez, Rebecca Solnit, Gilbert White, William Wordsworth, and Virgil, as well as theoretical writings by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Paul de Man, Donna Haraway , Annette Kolodny, Bruno Latour, Raymond Williams and more.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly response papers, a presentation, and a final project |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Class of '22: This course fulfills the Theory requirement and contributes to the Theory & Literary Forms concentration of the English major.
Class of '23 and beyond: This course fulfills the Theory requirement of the English major |
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