| Weeks | Topics |
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What is ecocriticism? “Introduction: Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis”
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Ecocriticism as a term “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism”
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| 3 |
Literary ecology “An Introduction to Literary Ecology”
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| 4 |
American Nature Writers “The Inner Life and the Outer World: Thoreau’s ‘Habit of Attention’ in His Private Journal”
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| 5 |
British Romantics “The Economy of Nature”
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| 6 |
First Wave: Environmental Criticism “The Emergence of Environmental Criticism”
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| 7 |
Deep Ecology “Ecosophy T: from intuition to system”
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| 8 |
Midterm Paper Submission
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| 9 |
Second Wave: Expanding the Boundaries “The Non-Alibi of Alien Spaces: SF and Ecocriticism”
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| 10 |
Third Wave: Postcolonial Ecocriticism “‘Back to the World’ Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context”
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| 11 |
Ecofeminism “New Directions for Ecofeminism: Toward a More Feminist Ecocriticism”
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| 12 |
Posthumanism “Ecocriticism and a Non-Anthropocentric Humanism: Reflections on Local Natures and Global Responsibilities”
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| 13 |
Material Ecocriticism “Bodily Natures”
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| 14 |
Final Paper Submission
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