English/Environmental Studies 243

Introduction to Nature Writing

E-reserve, fall 2006

Abbey, Edward . “The Conscience of a Conqueror,” Abbey’s Road. Plume, 1991. Pages 133-137. Wed. 10/24 (recommended, not required).

-----. The Monkey Wrench Gang (chapters 5 & 6). New York: Avon, 1976. Pages 51-91. Mon. 10/29 and Wed. 10/31.

-----. “Shadows from the Big Woods” and “Freedom & Wilderness, Wilderness & Freedom.” The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West . New York: E. P. Dutton, 1977. Pages 223-226, 227-38. Wed . 10/24 (“Shadows” is recommended, not required) .

-----. “Theory of Anarchy,” “Eco-Defense,” and “A Writer’s Credo.” One Life at a Time, Please. New York: Henry Holt, 1987. Pages 25-28, 29-32, 161-178. Mon. 10/22, Mon. 10/29, & Wed. 10/24.

Austin, Mary. “The Land of Little Rain,” “ Shoshone Land,” and “The Basket Maker.” Land of Little Rain. New York:  Dover, 1996. Pages 3-8, 25-29, 45-50. Mon. 10/1.

-----. The Young Woman Citizen (selections). Fullerton, Calif.: Designs III Publishers, 1976. Mon. 10/1.

Barnhill, David Landis. “Deep Ecology.” Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues. Volume 1. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2000. Page 197. Mon. 9/17.

-----. “The Spiritual Dimension of Nature Writing.” The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology. Ed. Roger S. Gottlieb. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. Mon. 9/17.

-----. “Surveying the Landscape.” Unpublished ms., 2005. Wed. 9/12.

-----. “Terry Tempest Williams and the Literature of Engagement.” Unpublished ms., 2005. Wed. 11/28.

- ----. “William Bartram: Introduction with Selected Quotations.” Unpublished ms., 2005. Wed. 9/19.

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring (chapters 1 & 2). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994 (1962). Pages 1-13. Wed. 10/3.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature (selections).Mon. 9/24.

Gatta, John. Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in American from the Puritans to the Present (selections). New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pages 48-52, 157-162.. Wed. 9/19 and Mon. 10/1.

Hargrove, Eugene, Edward Abbey, and Dave Foreman. “Debating Ecotage.” Radical Environmentalism: Philosophy and Tactics. Ed. Peter C. List. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1993. Pages 250-255. Wed. 10/31.

Hobgood-Oster, Laura. “Ecofeminism—Historic and International Evolution.” Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Ed. Bron R. Taylor. London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. Pages 533-538. Mon. 11/12.

Leopold, Aldo. “Thinking Like a Mountain” and “The Land Ethic.” A Sand County Almanac. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. Pages 129-133, 201-226. Wed. 10/3.

Loeffler, Jack. “Edward Abbey,” Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Ed. Bron R. Taylor. London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. Pages 1-3. Mon. 10/15.

Momaday, N. Scott. “A First American Views His Land.” Ed. David Landis Barnhill. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pages 19-29. Mon. 9/10.

Muir, John. “ Hetch Hetchy Valley.” The Yosemite. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor, 1962 (1912). Pages 192-202. Wed. 9/26

-----. “Selected quotations.” Wed. 9/26.

Raymo, Chet. “For wildness, hope lies in reality, not romanticism.” Boston Globe , March 1, 1999, C2. Mon. 9/24.

Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination.” At Home on the Earth: Becoming Native to Our Place. Ed. David Landis Barnhill. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pages 30-42. Mon. 9/10.

Taylor, Bron. “Deep Ecology.” Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Ed. Bron R. Taylor. London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. Pages 456-459. Mon. 9/17.

Taylor, Sarah. “Terry Tempest Williams.” Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Ed. Bron R. Taylor. London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. Pages 1751-1753. Mon. 11/5.

Thoreau, Henry David. “Walking.” The Natural History Essays. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1980. Pages 93-136. Mon. 9/24.

Williams, Terry Tempest. " Engagement.” Orion 23.4 ( July/August, 2004): 52-59. Wed. 12/16.

-----. “Prologue,” “Pintails, Mallards, and Teals,” and “The Clan of the One-Breasted Women.” Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. New York: Vintage, 2001. Pages 3-4, 239-252, 281-290. Mon. 11/12.

-----. “A Sprig of Sage” (abbreviated). Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. Pages 1-5, 8. Mon. 11/5.

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