This post was originally written as a discussion post in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a graduate environmental literature course. Reading: https://michaelpollan.com/books/the-botany-of-desire/ When I lived in Texas, my family and I would walk down to the community farmer’s market every Saturday. We’d buy fresh vegetables, bread, eggs, and even chicken and beef. We quickly […]
This post was originally written as a discussion post in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a graduate environmental literature course. Reading: Sherwood Anderson. Death in the Woods. 1933. https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400491h.html#ss01 Derrida, Jacques, and David Wills. “The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow).” Critical Inquiry, vol. 28, no. 2, 2002, pp. 369–418. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1344276. […]
This post was originally written as a discussion post in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a graduate environmental literature course. Reading: Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire, Touchstone, 1990. Everndon, Neil. “Beyond Ecology: Self, Place, and the Pathetic Fallacy.” The Ecocriticism Reader. Edited by Harold Fromm and Cherly Glotfelty. Athens, GA: U Georgia Press, 1996. 92-104. […]
This post was originally written as a discussion post in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a graduate environmental literature course. John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath. 1939. As I sat down to write my initial response, I felt like I needed some additional context. I did some very surface research (ie googling ha!) on […]
This post was originally written as a discussion post in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a graduate environmental literature course. Reading: Byerly, Allison. “The Uses of Landscape: The Picturesque Aesthetic and the National Park System.” The Ecocriticism Reader. Edited Harold Fromm and Cherly Glotfelty. Athens, GA: U Georgia Press, 1996. 52-68. Byerly says that […]
