AMST 4675

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AMST 4675
The Environmental Imagination in American Literature

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

This course focuses on works that exemplify environmental consciousness—a sense that humans are not the center of the world and that to think they are may have catastrophic consequences for humans themselves. Environmental literature is not just a major strand of American literature but one of its most distinctive contributions to the literature of the world. We will be reading works mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries, both poetry and fiction, confronting the challenges of thinking and writing with an ecological consciousness in the 21st. Cornell being a rich environment in which to pursue such investigations, creative projects will be encouraged. Inspiration is assured.

When Offered Fall or Spring.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS, HST-AS) (CA-AG, HA-AG, LA-AG)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 4675

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19150 AMST 4675   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19151 AMST 4675   IND 601

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    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Hutchinson, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies