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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: evolution and nature writing
Tom, Here's the list of texts I required in an undergrad senior seminar entitled "Evolutionary Biology and Literary Studies": Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography (Knopf) Philip Appleman, ed., Darwin (Norton) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Norton) Barash and Barash, Madame Bovary?s Ovaries (Delacorte) Kate Chopin, The Awakening (Norton) Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey (Knopf) Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer (Harper/Collins) Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Perennial) Philip Roth, Portnoy?s Complaint (Knopf) Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch (Random House) With regard to American nature writing, John Burroughs is one of the first to splash the cold water of evolution in his readers' faces, especially in *Time and Change* (1912). Rachel Carson's *The Edge of the Sea* (1955) is evolution transmogrified into a prose poem. If you haven't yet read Glenn Adelson and John Elder's study of Robert Frost's "Spring Pools," (ISLE 13.2) -- which is the best ecocritical study I know of -- you have a real treat awaiting you. Also consider John Elder's chapter on A. R. Ammons' "Corsons Inlet" (*Imagining the Earth*). Daniel Patterson Department of English Central Michigan University 989.774.3574 daniel.patterson@cmich.edu -----Original Message----- From: asle-owner@interversity.org on behalf of Thomas P Lynch Sent: Wed 9/3/2008 12:10 PM To: asle@interversity.org Subject: [asle] evolution and nature writing Hi all, I've just been assigned to teach a class next spring on Darwin and American nature writing. Next year there's a big Darwin hoopla scheduled here, run mostly by the biology dept., but we in English are doing our part. The idea is to read American nature writers who deal with or who have been obviously influenced by Darwin and evolutionary theory. Some present suspects I have in mind would be Loren Eiseley, David Quammen (who's coming to campus), E. O. Wilson, maybe Ursula Goodenough. But I'm looking for some other suggestions from this list's vast storehouse of knowledge. Maybe some poets? Maybe a novel? Thanks, Tom -------------------------------------- Tom Lynch Associate Professor Department of English 202 Andrews Hall P.O. Box 880333 University of Nebraska, Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0333 (402) 472-1833 http://english.unl.edu/faculty/profs/tlynch.html http://www.unl.edu/tlynch2/Homepage.htm El Lobo: Readings on the Mexican Gray Wolf: http://www.uofupress.com/store/product295.html *********************************** where I weeded yesterday weeds--------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe-> http://interversity.org/lists/asle/subscribe.html
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