ENST 180 - Green Fictions

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

The course studies modern environmental writing from several European countries, including France, Iceland, and the United Kingdom, and explores the reimagining of vanished landscapes. A selection of narrative tales, accounts, and reflections foregrounding contemporary ecological issues and priorities are considered; they cover a range of styles, from geopoetics to wild writing. The works draw on different cultural traditions to reflect creatively about questions of global urgency, among them climate change, sustainable development, loss of habitat, and pollution. Critical readings accompany the study of primary texts. Authors may include Kathleen Jamie, Jean Giono, Andri Snaer Magnason, Kenneth White, Michel Rio, Robert Macfarlane. Mr. Andrews.

Open only to freshmen; satisfies the college requirement for a Freshman Writing Seminar.

Two 75-minute periods.