The Writer and Nature
\nEnglish 2318.1 \u2014 Saint Mary\u2019s University, Halifax
\nFridays \u2013 10:00-12:30
\nSept.-Dec. 2015
\nInstructor: Brian Bartlett
\nYou can drive out nature with a pitch fork
\nbut it always comes roaring back again \u2013 Tom Waits
\nThis course is centered on \u201cnature writing\u201d in the U.S. and Britain over the past two centuries. We will look at non-fiction prose by pioneers such as Gilbert White, Dorothy Wordsworth, H. D. Thoreau, and John Muir, along with modern authors including Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Annie Dillard and Leslie Marmon Silko. We will also look at examples of animal presence in the works of a few fiction writers and poets. Discussions will grapple with topics such as the word \u201cnature\u201d itself, descriptive and narrative approaches, ideas about the natural world in Judeo-Christian and Aboriginal traditions, mixes of the personal and the scientific, and the growth of ecological thinking and environmental ethics as reflected in literary works. This course can be taken for a university credit or audited. For more information, contact bbartlett6364@gmail.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Writer and Nature English 2318.1 \u2014 Saint Mary\u2019s University, Halifax Fridays \u2013 10:00-12:30 Sept.-Dec. 2015 Instructor: Brian Bartlett You can drive out nature with a pitch fork but it always comes roaring back again \u2013 Tom Waits This course … Continue reading