Hello ENVS Community,
Please consider the following course this spring:
English 100: Literary Landscapes
Rishona Zimring
Spring 2016
Through the study of novels, short stories, poems, travel narratives, and visual art, this course examines various imaginative geographies that have preoccupied writers and artists. We will investigate categories such as cities, gardens, seascapes and shorelines, wilderness, and “the private sphere.” Our reading will reach back to classical antiquity, as we trace the history, for example, of the “pastoral,” and will take us through early modern Europe, the 18th through 20th centuries, and up to contemporary art and writing. How do representations of space work through and against the power of “Edenic” symbolism? How and when do cities such as Paris and London magnetically attract artists, and also become the topics of their work? Is the sea viewed from the shore sublime or maternal? These are just some of the questions we will pursue in this course.
A student could potentially propose this as an A&H Breadth course.
Best,
Nate