Ecofiction: An Introduction - AAA134012
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Course Requirements: Credit requirements include regular attendance (max. 2 unexplained absences per semester) and active participation in the class discussion, based on the reading of assigned texts. These will include extracts from the novels we will discuss (50 to 60 pages) and an extract from a theoretical or critical essay (5 to 10 pages) on a weekly or fortnightly basis. Students will also be expected to come up with discussion questions on the individual topics and texts and to submit an essay of 2000 to 2500 words on a topic of their choice by mid-September 2025. Essays must be thoroughly researched and include full bibliographical references to all works cited or paraphrased (see the UALK Chicago Guidelines on the course Moodle site for details). Last update: Theinová Daniela, Mgr., Ph.D. (01.02.2025)
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Reading: Primary: Selected extracts from: George Rippey Stewart: Storm (1941) Walter M. Miller: A Canticle for Horowitz (1959) Ursula Le Guin: The Word for World Is Forest (1972) Sara Baume: A Line Made By Walking (2017) Edward Abbey: The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) Jeanette Winterson: The Stone Gods (2007) Amitav Ghosh: Gun Island (2019) Octavia E. Butler: Parable of the Sower (1993) China Miéville: Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)
Recommended Secondary Reading – Criticism and Theory: David Abram: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (1997) Gregers Andersen: Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis: A New Perspective on Life in the Anthropocene (2019) Timothy Clark: The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment (2011) Timothy Clark: Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept (2015) Amitav Ghosh: The Great Derangement (2016) Axel Goodbody and Adeline Johns-Putra, eds.: Cli-Fi: A Companion (2018) Julius Greve and Florian Zappe, eds.: Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic (2019) Ursula K. Heise: Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (2008) Anna Hellén: Apocalyptic Territories: Setting and Revelation in Contemporary American Fiction (2020) Eva Horn and Hannes Bergthaller: The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities (2020) Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin: Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment (2015) Martin Hultman and Paul M. Pulé: Ecological Masculinities: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Guidance (2018) Dale Jamieson: Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction (2008) Adeline Jonhs-Putra: Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel (2019) Ursula Le Guin: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction (1979) Andrew Milner and J. R. Burgmann: Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach (2020) Sabine Lenore Müller and Tina-Karen Pusse, eds.: From Ego to Eco: Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism (2018) Bryan L. Moore: Ecology and Literature: Ecocentric Personification from Antiquity to the 21st-Century (2008) Timothy Morton: The Ecological Thought (2010) Marek Oziewicz, Brian Attebery and Tereza Dědinová, eds.: Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media (2022) Min Hyoung Song: Climate Lyricism (2016) Arran Stibbe: Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By (2015) Darko Suvin: Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre (1977) Last update: Theinová Daniela, Mgr., Ph.D. (01.02.2025)
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Syllabus: (An updated version of the syllabus, including the final selection of required texts will be available from the Moodle course site.) Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 & 4 Week 5 & 6 Week 7 Week 8 & 9 Week 10 Week 11 & 12 Last update: Theinová Daniela, Mgr., Ph.D. (01.02.2025)
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