CLS2820

Introduction to ecocriticism

(ART)

Kate Rigby

8 points + 3 hours per week + Second semester + Clayton

Synopsis: This subject provides an introduction to the new field of ecologically oriented literary and cultural studies. Ecocriticism is concerned with the relationship between the texts of human culture and the physical world of nature, both `outer' (the earth and its ecosystems) and `inner' (the body and its drives). In this subject we will begin by looking critically at the ways in which nature has been constructed in certain key texts of Western religion, philosophy, science and economics, notably as a limit to be transcended, a domain to be dominated, or property to be owned

Assessment: Seminar paper (1500 words) 25% + Essay (3000 words) 50% + Essay (1500 words): 25%