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Literature in Focus: Ecocriticism
Cursusdoel
This course focuses on the major debates and key concepts and theories within the environmental humanities and ecocriticism. It aims to provide insight in and knowledge of the relationship between environmental and social change and its expression in works of art and literary texts.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Identify how key works of art and literary texts respond to environmental and social change.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the major debates within ecocriticism and the environmental humanities.
- Demonstrate ability to speak and write critically about key concepts and ideas in reference to specific cultural and artistic examples, in a variety of assignments (reading responses, research essay) and conversational settings (oral presentation, group discussion, discussion-lading), using specialized terms and academic vocabulary.
- Apply knowledge of key concepts and debates to the study of creative cultural objects.
- Develop an independent research project in the form of a final research essay.
Vakinhoudelijk
The course offers a thematic case study, that changes every year. This offers students the chance to get acquainted with classical and canonical works more in depth, learning how to do close reading as well as placing the text in its historical context. Students also explore different forms of critical receptions and evaluation through time, disciplinary contexts and scholarly traditions.
Summer 2023 topic: Ecocriticism
Literature in Focus: Ecocriticism asks how the literary arts and the human imagination respond to the changing environments of the twentieth and twenty-first century. While the study of the environment in literary texts has long been vital to literary criticism, since the 1990s it has come together in a so-called “environmental turn”, as a movement concerned with the questions that arise in times of rapid environmental and social change. In this course we discuss how environmental problems and questions urge us to rethink and reshape the role of the human in the future of our planet. We examine the notion of ecocriticism and the thriving environmental humanities through various artistic, cultural, and literary perspectives from around the world.
This course is shaped via several “keywords” that are integral to the growing body of scholarship in the environmental humanities. Words such as nature, life, extinction, care, and justice guide our discussions on the generative potential of creative cultural production and the ways in which art and literature can build worlds and envision different futures. We will engage with environmental literary and cultural theory from fields like settler colonial studies, Indigenous studies, queer and gender studies, feminist materialisms, postcolonialism, anticolonialism, and animal studies.
Summer 2023 topic: Ecocriticism
Literature in Focus: Ecocriticism asks how the literary arts and the human imagination respond to the changing environments of the twentieth and twenty-first century. While the study of the environment in literary texts has long been vital to literary criticism, since the 1990s it has come together in a so-called “environmental turn”, as a movement concerned with the questions that arise in times of rapid environmental and social change. In this course we discuss how environmental problems and questions urge us to rethink and reshape the role of the human in the future of our planet. We examine the notion of ecocriticism and the thriving environmental humanities through various artistic, cultural, and literary perspectives from around the world.
This course is shaped via several “keywords” that are integral to the growing body of scholarship in the environmental humanities. Words such as nature, life, extinction, care, and justice guide our discussions on the generative potential of creative cultural production and the ways in which art and literature can build worlds and envision different futures. We will engage with environmental literary and cultural theory from fields like settler colonial studies, Indigenous studies, queer and gender studies, feminist materialisms, postcolonialism, anticolonialism, and animal studies.
Werkvormen
UCU HUM 2 course
Toetsing
Presentation
Verplicht | Weging 30% | ECTS 2,25
Reading responses
Verplicht | Weging 30% | ECTS 2,25
Final paper
Verplicht | Weging 40% | ECTS 3
Ingangseisen en voorkennis
Ingangseisen
Er is geen informatie over verplichte ingangseisen bekend.
Voorkennis
Any level 1 HUM course. Recommended courses: [UCHUMLIT11] Introduction to Literature or [UCHUMMES11] Intro to Comparative Media Studies.
Voertalen
- Engels
Competenties
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Academisch schrijven
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Interdisciplinariteit
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Kritisch lezen
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Onderzoeksvaardigheden
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Presenteren
Cursusmomenten
Gerelateerde studies
Tentamens
Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus
Verplicht materiaal
Er is geen informatie over de verplichte literatuur bekend
Aanbevolen materiaal
Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend
Opmerkingen
Topic of course changes every few years
Coördinator
| dr. S.P. van Bommel | s.p.vanBommel@uu.nl |
Docenten
| dr. S.M.A. Ferwerda | s.m.a.ferwerda@uu.nl |
Inschrijving
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