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CS92PROD
Nature Description: Literature and Theory
ENGL 367
Fall 2016 not offered
Crosslisting: CHUM 365, SISP 365

What happens to the world when we describe it using language? What happens to language? Do different modes of description and figurative language do different things to the world? Might we think of such modes--and the literary genres that offer them--as tools that help us approach and understand nature? And in what ways do these modes and the unexamined assumptions that structure them limit what we can see? How much can we really know about nature as it is in itself, outside of our representational strategies? Further, how have modes of description changed over time, and what can we today learn from studying other ways of understanding how language reflects, touches, and transforms the material world?

This course will grapple with big questions about matter, language, literary form, and human minds--as well as the complex interactions between and among these. We will read both literature and theory, and students will have the opportunity to participate in some relevant Center for the Humanities events probing the ways we understand the material world.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL
Course Format: Lecture / DiscussionGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (CSCT)(ENGL)(STS)

Last Updated on MAR-28-2024
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