ENGL 122AP Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ecocriticism, Postmodern Literature, Post-Structuralism
Document Summary
Kicked off from roosevelt"s natural park preservations. 1960s-1990s postmodern and post-structuralist approaches dominate literary studies. Though the environment is already dead, we fail to see evolution of our surroundings. Conceptual shift towards natural world intertwined with human existence. Explore and possibly change how we think about the environment (conyus) Consider how people create art/stories about the environment. Explore how the material world shapes, and shaped by imagination and ideas. Conyus explaining how prison environment shapes writing; short, sparse poetry. Diary interesting in that some people were more scared of the convicts rather than the actual oil spill. Uses nature defined as things human and nonhuman. City created through disparate agencies and relationships established among them (humans, natural resources) City exists within mesh that extends well beyond its visible borders. Morton: ecological thinking complicates understandings of ourselves as discrete, unique beings. Leung ping-kwan, at the north point car ferry . Born and wrote in hong kong, 1949-2013.
