Literature and the Environment

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Ecocriticism, also called environmental criticism, examines the ways in which literary texts represent the natural world and human relationships with it. This course examines literary works from the pre-modern period through the twenty-first century, from anglophone and other traditions, to investigate how they represent natural and constructed environments, humans and non-human animals, how humans have interacted with the environment, and how constructed human categories such as race, gender, religion, and disability interact with various environments.