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Ecocritical Pedagogy and Poetics
Teaching Environmental Writing
Ecocritical Pedagogy and Poetics
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Environmental writing is an increasingly popular literary genre, and a multifaceted genre at that. Recently dominated by works of 'new nature writing', environmental writing includes works of poetry and fiction about the world around us. In the last two decades, universities have begun to offer environmental writing modules and courses with the intention of teaching students skills in the field of writing inspired by the natural world. This book asks how students are being guided into writing about environments. Informed by independently conducted interviews with educators, and a review of existing pedagogical guides, it explores recurring instructions given to students for writing about the environment and compares these pedagogical approaches to the current theory and practice of ecocriticism by scholars such as Ursula Heise and Timothy Morton. Proposing a set of original pedagogical exercises influenced by ecocriticism, the book draws on a number of self-reflexive, environmentally-conscious poets, including Juliana Spahr, Jorie Graham and Les Murray, as creative and stimulating models for teachers and students.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. 'Where you are': Place Writing
2. The “I-Me-My Voice”: The First-Person in Environmental Writing
3. 'I am not a swift': Approaching Nonhumans
4. Writing 'more in the world': Fact and Figuration
5. 'On the world's terms and not my own': Authenticity, Self-Reflexivity & Otherness
Afterword
Bibliography
Product details
| Published | Nov 18 2021 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 216 |
| ISBN | 9781350243279 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Environmental Cultures |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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