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Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Mariana Machová, Ph.D. (21.02.2022)
<br> From its 19th-century beginnings American poetry has been concerned with man’s relationship to nature, which for long seemed vast and wild and indomitable, but this condition has changed dramatically. For more than two centuries, American poets have been deeply conscious of the presence of a world related to ours, but utterly different from it, and they tried to reach out to it, reflect on it and come to terms with it. Ecocritical perspective, which has become a significant trend in the last few decades, can offer interesting insights into these efforts. <br> The course will focus on the study American poetry in relation to ecocritical thought, paying close attention to the works of the poets who see “non-human” presence as fundamental for our own existence in the world, and whose poetry explores the complex and deeply problematic relationship between the world of man and the world of nature. Apart from poetry, ecocritical texts will also be read, and both the possibilities and the limits of the ecocritical perspective on poetry will be discussed.<br> In each class we will discuss a limited number poems by two or three different poets – the goal is not to introduce each poet in all his or her complexity, but rather to present a variety of approaches to “eco” topics. The first two classes will deal with the 19th century poetry, the third class will be dedicated to Modernism, but the majority of the texts will be from the last seventy years of American poetry.<br> |
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Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Mariana Machová, Ph.D. (21.02.2022)
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Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Mariana Machová, Ph.D. (04.02.2021)
Material For each class the students will be asked to read some four or five poems and one essay. The full detailed reading list will be available in the first class of the semester. All the material for the class will be available on Moodle.
Selected Bibliography: Bryson, Scott J. The West Side of Any Mountain. Place, Space and Ecopoetry. Iowa City: Iowa University Press, 2005. Bryson, Scott J., ed. Ecopoetry. A Critical Introduction. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2002.. Felstiner, John. Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Fisher-Wirth, Ann and Laura Grey Street, eds. The Ecopoetry Anthology. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2013. Glotfelty, Cheryll, and Harold Fromm. The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. New York: Routledge, 2012. Garrard, Greg, ed. Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Griffiths, Matthew, ed. The New Poetics of Climate Change: Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. Keller, Lynn. Recomposing Ecopoetics. North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017. Kilcup, Karen L. Fallen Forests : Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781-1924. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013. Ryan, John Charles. Plants in Contemporary Poetry. Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination. New York: Routlege, 2018. Scigaj, Leonard M. Sustainable Poetry: Four American Ecopoets. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1999. Scigaj, Leonard M. “Contemporary Ecological and Environmental Poetry Différance or Référance?“ ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 3, Issue 2, Fall 1996, pp. 1–25, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/3.2.1 |
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Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Mariana Machová, Ph.D. (21.02.2022)
SYLLABUS Week 1 (February 22): Introduction Week 2 (March 1): William Cullen Bryant, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau Week 3 (March 8): Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson Week 4 (March 15): Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore Week 5 (March 22): Lorine Niedecker, Elizabeth Bishop Week 6 (March 29): Theodor Roethke, David Wagoner Week 7 (April 5): W. S. Merwin, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry Week 8 (April 12): Richard Wilbur, Adrienne Rich Week 9 (April 19): Mary Oliver, Maxine Kumin Week 10 (April 26): Louise Glück, Jorie Graham Week 11 (May 3): Linda Hogan, Joy Harjo Week 12 (May 10): tbs Week 13 (May 17): Closing remarks, annotated poem due
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