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Keywords | Earth's Eye
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Explorations in American Environmental Writing Washington College. You might also think of these, updated for digital reference, as a list of “tags.” You can use this for self-evaluation: by the end of the course, how well do you grasp these terms? Berry, “Solving for Pattern” Thoreau…. Thoreau (Walden as earth’s eye). Culture, cultural, cultivation. Living, reading, writing. Ecocriticism (vs. environmental criticism). Buell, Future of Environmental Criticism. Is the graphic, often dramatic. Buell, The E...
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Explorations in American Environmental Writing Washington College. Final Thoughts: surprised by the earth. December 2, 2014. Endings are beginnings. It is an ecological insight–one that poets, like others, have been meditating for some time. So where are we at the end of our exploration of American environmental writing? To go back to our beginning: what does it mean to be green (or: organic, ecocritical, environmental, natural) in our reading and writing? You are exploring that in your projects. With th...
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Final Project | Earth's Eye
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Explorations in American Environmental Writing Washington College. Small Waldens: Doing Ecocriticism. The purpose is for you to give an account to some aspect of environmental writing that you want to explore further–and thus are inviting us to explore further with you. At least 7 pages (not including the 1 page for the preface). Effective reference to at least one author from the course, integrated into the essay. In addition to the essay itself, you will include a 1 page preface, situating your work in...
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Writing Projects | Earth's Eye
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Explorations in American Environmental Writing Washington College. Replica of Thoreau’s desk at Walden. Readers out there, perhaps in distant lands, but kindred–interested in your interests in environmental writing, in these authors, but wanting and needing to understand your interests further. For any citations, use MLA format [in-text citation; works cited at end–refer to Purdue OWL. 2] Honor Code Statement at the bottom; [3] proper citation format (including works cited) for all citations. Assignment:...
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Class Outline | Earth's Eye
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Explorations in American Environmental Writing Washington College. Part 1: Sounding Walden. First Class. What’s the nature of nature writing? Introduction to thinking about the environment as readers and writers, exploring critical perspectives that relate the environmental and the imaginative. What you are studying;. Particular interest in environmental and/or English studies;. An environmental text you have (or think you have) read–what makes it “environmental”? Place you are from;. Use of Journal: phi...
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Presentations | Earth's Eye
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Explorations in American Environmental Writing Washington College. Here are the guidelines:. Present to class (approximately 5 minutes) ideas, images, keywords, concepts, and/or questions from some further reading that you have chosen to do. Summarize this further reading and make an application to an element of environmental writing and thinking we have encountered in the course: a particular passage from a course text, a keyword, a concept raised in discussion. A text by one of the writers in. A creati...
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Earth’s Eyes: Final Project Magazine | Earth's Eye
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Explorations in American Environmental Writing Washington College. Earth’s Eyes: Final Project Magazine. December 3, 2014. Explorations in American Environmental Writing: volume 4 /Fall 2014. A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. To publish your final project to this Magazine, copy the link from your project below; include your first name and the title of your project.]. Leave one →. Megan ...
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Final Project: publishing your work | Earth's Eye
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Explorations in American Environmental Writing Washington College. Final Project: publishing your work. November 25, 2014. Thinking about publication as an eventual goal for your final project, your exploration in literary ecology. You all will be publishing the final project on your blog–and then linking it to the Class Magazine I will set up on my blog. So, that is your most immediate audience. Here is a look at the Magazine. Other venues and models to consider:. Literary House: Warner Prize. You are c...
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Final Thoughts: surprised by the earth | Earth's Eye
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Explorations in American Environmental Writing Washington College. Final Thoughts: surprised by the earth. December 2, 2014. Endings are beginnings. It is an ecological insight–one that poets, like others, have been meditating for some time. So where are we at the end of our exploration of American environmental writing? To go back to our beginning: what does it mean to be green (or: organic, ecocritical, environmental, natural) in our reading and writing? You are exploring that in your projects. With th...
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Learning Philosophy | Earth's Eye
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Explorations in American Environmental Writing Washington College. Continuing Education : My Philosophy of Learning. The crux of the philosophy of education and learning that I bring with me into class can be phrased best in the words of John Dewey. In Democracy and. The end is learning. I am a student of learning. The course is a work in progress. The educative process I emphasize applies to the course itself. There will be a syllabus and clear guidelines. But there will also be much room to dev...You a...
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