生態思想與文學
Ecological Thought and Literature
| 節 | 週五 |
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2 09:00–09:50 | 生態思想與文學 HC402 3 節連堂 |
3 10:10–11:00 | |
4 11:10–12:00 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
This course aims both to explore specific ecological thought and to enable students to read literature in light of ecological issues engaged in their original contexts while considering their interest in light of contemporary issues facing us today. Students will learn to frame writings that not only are self-consciously focused on ecological issues but also that reflect assumptions about human ethical decisions in the context of ecological issues in dramatic presentation itself. Thus, we will not only discuss philosophical and literary writings but also renderings of human thought in dramatic public digital media, especially documentary and science fiction film and TV series.
This course is open to all students and is conducted in English. Students should have advanced reading skills in English.
Seminar (lecture, student presentations, discussion). Analyzing fiction, prose, poetry, plays, films, and hybrid experimental writing.
Contribution to class discussion of readings: 25% Leading class discussion on assigned reading: 25% Presentation on an original topic: 25% Final Project (may be a formal written presentation of original research in student's presentation on an original topic): 25% Attendance: -2 from final grade for each unexcused absence or unmade-up excused absence.
| 週次 | 主題 |
|---|---|
| 第 1 週 | Introduction to course and issues in environmental thought and literature In-class handout: discuss passages from Andreas Weber, "Culture: Imagining the Other," from Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene (2019 [2016]). https://meet.google.com/doh-bvkx-gbv |
| 第 2 週 | Utopian Ecological Fiction Readings (excerpts from): Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia (1975) |
| 第 3 週 | Ecological Thought in the US (1) Readings (excerpts from): Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods (1854) |
| 第 4 週 | Ecological Thought in the US (2) Readings (excerpts from): Aldo Leopold, "Foreword" and "The Land Ethic"(1949). |
| 第 5 週 | Focus on California Readings are very short excerpts from literary writings collected in Steven Gilbar, David Brower (editors), Natural State: A Literary Anthology of California Nature Writing (1998): 1-Mark Twain, "Lake Tahoe" 2-Jack Kerouac, "Climbing Matterhorn Peak" 3-Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Sea Fogs" 4-Jack London, "On Sonoma Mountain" 5-John Steinbeck, "Flight" 6-Hildegarde Flanner, "A Vanishing Land" 7-Edward Abbey, "Death Valley" |
| 第 6 週 | Activist Ecological Fiction Readings (excerpts from): Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) |
| 第 7 週 | Ecological Thought in Taiwan Readings (excerpts from): 1-Rose Hsiu-li Juan, "Imagining the Pacific Trash Vortex and the Spectacle of Environmental Disaster: Environmental Entanglement and Literary Engagement in Wu Ming-yi’s Fuyan ren (The Man with the Compound Eyes)." 2-Excerpt from Wu Ming-yi, The Man with the Compound Eyes (Fuyan ren, 2011). (May read in Chinese or English.) |
| 第 8 週 | Species Needs and Territorialities Readings (excerpts from): 1-Deleuze and Guattari, from A Thousand Plateaus (1980) 2-Dean Brink, "Rewilding and Neoliberal Territorialities after the Anthropocene: Cybernetic Modeling of the Oriental Stork as Critique" |
| 第 9 週 | Miyazaki Hayao's Environmental Ethics Readings (excerpts from): Miscellaneous samples of film criticism. Film by Miyazaki Hayao to be discussed include: 1-Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) 2-Princess Mononoke (1997) 3-Spirited Away (2001) |
| 第 10 週 | Foregrounding Women in Environmental Thought Readings (excerpts from): 1-Margaret Forster, "Restoring the Feminine of Indigenous Environmental Thought" 2-Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace (2015) |
| 第 11 週 | Colonialism and War in Science Fiction Literature and Film Readings (excerpts from): 1-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World is Forest (1972) We will also discuss a related film: Avatar (Directed by James Cameron, 2009) |
| 第 12 週 | Scientific, Ecological and Posthuman Art and Poetry Readings (excerpts from): 1-Pierantonio Zanotti, "The Incorporation of Scientific Discourse in Yamamura Bochō’s 'Prismist' Poetry (1914-1916)" (2014). 2-Brochures (pdfs and links) from various exhibits and websites. Recommended extra reading: Dean Brink, "Aesthetic Configurations and Qualia in Environmental Consciousness in Contemporary Taiwanese Poetry and Installation Art" in Taiwanese Ecocriticism: Transnational Island Identities, edited by Chia-ju Chang and Scott Slovic. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016, 163-186. |
| 第 13 週 | Experimental Writing with Ecological Implications Readings (excerpts from): 1-Pierre Guyotat, from 500,000 Soldiers (1967) 2-Pierre Guyotat, from Eden Eden Eden (1970) 3-Reza Negarestani, from Cyclonopedia (2008) Recommended extra reading: Dean Brink, "Eroticized Materiality and Postcolonial Agency in Pierre Guyotat's Algerian Works" |
| 第 14 週 | Ancient Greek Writings and Whitehead on Nature Readings (excerpts from): 1-Heraclitus, "On Nature" 2-Parmenides, "On Nature" 3-Anaxagoras, "On Nature" 4-Alfred North Whitehead, Concept of Nature (1920) |
| 第 15 週 | Student Presentations of Final Paper Research |
| 第 16 週 | Holiday |
To be made available in a course pdf containing short excerpts from works discussed.
- 地點
- HC3-415
- 時間
- Wed 1:00-15:00 or by appointment.
- 聯絡方式
- Email: interpoetics@gmail.com Campus phone: x58115