Ecofiction: An Introduction - AAA134012

• Anglický název: Ecofiction: An Introduction
• Zajišťuje: Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2022
• Semestr: letní
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 3
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:0/2, Z [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: Mgr. Daniela Theinová, Ph.D.
• Třída: Exchange - 09.2 General and Comparative Literature

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Daniela Theinová, Ph.D. (02.02.2023)

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 give one in-class presentation (5 to 8 minutes) on one of the essays we will discuss and to submit an essay of 2000 to 2500 words on a topic of their choice by mid-September 2023. 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).

Literatura

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Daniela Theinová, Ph.D. (02.02.2023)

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)

 

Some useful secondary sources – criticism and theory:

Amitav Ghosh: The Great Derangement (2016)

Min Hyoung Song: Climate Lyricism (2016)

Stibbe, Arran: Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By (2015)

Moore, Bryan L.: Ecology and Literature: Ecocentric Personification from Antiquity to the 21st-Century (2008)

Morton, Timothy: The Ecological Thought (2010)

Müller, Sabine Lenore and Tina-Karen Pusse, eds.: From Ego to Eco: Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism (2018)

Jamieson, Dale: Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction (2008)

Ursula K. Heise: Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (2008)

Eva Horn and Hannes Bergthaller: The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities (2020)

Huggan, Graham and Helen Tiffin: Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment (2015)

Hultman, Martin and Paul M. Pulé: Ecological Masculinities: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Guidance (2018)

Abram, David: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (1997)

Timothy Clark: The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment (2011)

Timothy Clark: Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept (2015)

Sylabus

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (28.11.2022)

22 Feb
Introduction

1 Mar
Robert Herrick, “Gather ye Rosebuds while ye may,” “Ah Ben! Say how or when,” “Fair Pledges of a Fruitful Tree,” “Ye have been fresh and green”
Ben Jonson, “Thou art not, Penshurst,” “Here lies, to each her parents’ ruth,” “Fine Madam Would-be, wherefore should you fear”
George Herbert: “Church Monuments,” “Peace”
Frederick Seidel, “Surf’s Up”*

8 Mar
A. E. Housman, “Reveille”
Mother Goose rhymes
Jeffrey Yang, “Devil”*
Vona Groarke, “Vanishing Point”*
A. E. Stallings, “For a Young Turkish Violinist”*
Robert Scholes, “Reading Poetry: A Lost Art”, from The Crafty Reader^

15 Mar
Ange Mlinko, “A Midsummer Night’s Work”*
Catherine Barnett, “The Sky Flashes”*
Ben Lerner, “The Pistil”*

22 Mar
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Nate Klug, “The Pokémon Go People”*
Henri Cole, “Black Mushrooms”*
Jane Yeh, “A Short History of Style”*
Jonathan Culler, “Lyric, History and Genre”^

29 Mar
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath”
Christina Rosetti, “The irresponsive silence of the land...”
Stephanie Burt, The Poem is You (chapters on James Merrill, Rae Armantrout, Lucie Brock-Broido)^

5 Apr
William Wordsworth, “Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm, painted by Sir George Beaumont”, “Ode (There was a time when meadow…)”
Adrienne Rich, poems^

12 Apr
Mutlu Konuk Blasing, Introduction, Lyric Poetry: The Pain and Pleasure of Words^
Anonymous, “In somer when the shawes be sheyne”
William Barnes, “The aïr to gi'e your cheäks a hue”, "I got two fields"
Thomas Traherne, “How Like an Angel came I down”

19 Apr: National Holiday

26 Apr
William Wordsworth, "Yew Trees"
John Clare, "Beside a runnel build my shed"
William Blake, "The Little Vagabond"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Mariana"
John Marston, "The nut-brown ale, the nut-brown ale"
Jorie Graham, "It Cannot Be" [handout]

3 May
Jahan Ramazani, “Poetry and the News,” from Poetry and Its Others^
Walter Savage Landor, "Lines to a Dragon-Fly"
Angela Leighton, "Pickpocket, Naples"

10 May
H. D. poems^
Rupi Kaur poems^

17 May
Susan Stewart, “Lyric Possession”^
Atticus poems^
Dylan Thomas poems^

24 May
Students prepare a 5 minute presentation that reviews the course. For instance, you may like to cover the areas of knowledge and skills that the course provided, or consider how it fits with other courses at the dept. The floor will be yours.

*Poems marked with an asterisk can be found in the file “Reading Poems Reader” on the IS in the course description (available in both DOCX and PDF formats).
^Texts marked with a caret can be found on the IS.