ENGL 6330

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ENGL 6330
Animals, Affect, and Climate: The Counterhuman Imaginary

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

This course juxtaposes core strains of current posthumanist theory-new materialism or thing theory, the affective turn, ecocriticism or environmental humanities, and literary animal studies. Using eighteenth-century literature, culture, and intellectual discourse as a starting point and then sampling related materials in the Anglo-American tradition from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, we will define these theoretical scenarios, and evaluate the broader impact of approaches to the other-than-human in literary theory and in formal critique. Texts (and selections): Newton, Opticks; Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Hume, Treatise of Human Nature; Voltaire, Candide; Auster, Timbuktu; Heise, Imagining Extinction; Kohn, How Forests Think; Braidotti, The Posthuman.


Last 4 Terms Offered 2024FA, 2023SP, 2018SP, 2015FA

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8505 ENGL 6330   SEM 101

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    • T
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Brown, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person