ENG 421 North American Nonfiction Nature Writing
This course surveys primarily North American writing about human interaction with the natural world. Participants will focus on individual writers and the paradigms they constructed or adopted in trying to understand and foster this interaction. These paradigms will be contrasted with the dominant modes of human interaction with nature in the author’s period. Henry Thoreau, John Muir, Mary Austin, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Barry Lopez, Gary Snyder, and other writers will be the focus.
Prerequisite
ENG 101, ENG 102/ENG 103, and at least one semester of Literature.
Distribution
HumanitiesOffered
Spring, odd-numbered years