Literature
and the Environment, Spring 2012
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Online
Readings
last update: March 15, 2012
Notes:
- Here are various texts and sites
that will interest students in the course.
- These are not necessarily
assigned readings. For week-by-week
reading assignments, see "Calendar," above.
- I will update this site
periodically throughout the semester. If
you have any suggestions for additional links, please send me an email. -- KOD, instructor --odonnell@etsu.edu
I. Book Reviews
- "Book Review: 'The Big
Burn' by Timothy Egan: A compelling look at the biggest forest fire in American
history." By Michael Joseph
Gross. The Los Angeles Times, October
25, 2009. www.latimes.com/entertainment/news
/la-ca-timothy-egan25-2009oct25,0,7852974.story
- "Couple Creates an
Empire by Felling Trees and Anyone in Their Way" [review of Serena] by Janet Maslin, New York Times,
October 5, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/books/06masl.html
- Flesh of Your Flesh: Should you
eat meat? [rev. of Foer's Eating Animals],
by Elizabeth Kolbert. The New Yorker, November 9, 2009. www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/11/09/091109crbo_books_kolbert
- "The Homer of the
Ants" [rev. of Anthill: A Novel,
by E. O. Wilson], by Margaret Atwood. The New York Review of Books 57, 6
(April 8, 2010). www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/apr/08/the-homer-of-the-ants/
- "Hosed: Is there a quick
fix for the climate?" [rev. of Levitt and Dubner's SuperFreakonomics and Al Gore's Our
Choice], by Elizabeth Kolbert. The New Yorker, November 16, 2009. www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/11/16/091116crbo_books_kolbert
- "Solar by Ian McEwan: McEwan excels at climate science but his
one-dimensional protagonist makes you shudder." By Jason Cowley. The
Observer [Arts magazine of the Manchester, UK Guardian]. Saturday 13 March
2010. www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/14/solar-ian-mcewan
II. Related to Course
Texts
- GLOBAL WARMING AND FLOWERING
TIMES IN THOREAU'S CONCORD: A COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE. Abraham J. Miller-Rushing and Richard B.
Primack. Ecology 89, 2 (February
2008): p332-341. www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/07-0068.1
- "Serena:
The Story Behind the Book" [Ron Rash's comments on how he wrote the
book, posted at the site of his literary agent; no date], http://www.rusoffagency.com/authors/rash_r/serenat/behind_serena.htm
- Carolina Panthers. By Dan Lazar, Director of Education, Western
North Carolina Nature. 2010. www.wildwnc.org/education/naturalists-notes/carolina-panthers
- "Ron Rash
Feature." Ten poems by Rash, a
western North Carolina poet who will read at ETSU on Tuesday evening, Feb 7,
2012. Story South dot com, Summer 2002. www.storysouth.com/summer2002/rashfeaturepoems.html. Accessed January 2012.
- Rehabilitating
Carson: Why do some people continue to hold Rachel Carson responsible for
millions of malaria deaths? by John Quiggen and Tim Lambert, Prospect May 2008
- ''Rachel Carson, Mass Murderer?:
The creation of an anti-environmental myth.'' Aaron Swartz, ''Extra!'' [F.A.I.R.],
September/October, 2007.
- RachelWasWrong.org. "Uncovering
Silent Spring's Deadly Consequences," by the Competitive Enterprise
Institute
- In Florida, Despair
and Foreclosures, by Damien Cave, NY Times online, Feb 7, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/us/08lehigh.html
- Restoration of the
Everglades, Wikipedia article,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades_restoration
- Julia Butterfly Hill profile on
NBC Dateline News Magazine, Feb 14, 1999 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFRdy7o3DPE&feature=related
- "The Danger of Cosmic Genius [on Freeman
Dyson]." By Kenneth Brower. The Atlantic Magazine. December 2010. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/12/the-danger-of-cosmic-genius/8306/
III. Authors Online
- Horace Kephart: Revealing an
Enigma. Hunter Library Special
Collections and the Mountain Heritage Center, Western Carolina University. http://www.wcu.edu/library/digitalcoll/kephart/
- "John Muir Writings"
at Yosemite Online, an unofficial Yosemite website. http://www.yosemite.ca.us/john_muir_writings/
- "A
Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf," by John Muir, at sierraclub.org
- The
Canons of the Colorado (first paper: Down the Green River), by John Wesley
Powell, Scribner's Monthly 9, 3
(January 1875): 293-311
- The
Canons of the Colorado (second paper), by John Wesley Powell, Scribner's Monthly 9, 4 (February 1875):
394-409
IV. Environmental Writing
- "The Story of
Stuff." 20-minute animated video/
lecture by Annie Leonard. About
extraction/ manufacture/ disposal cycle.
www.storyofstuff.com/
- Climate Progress. "A liberal
blog on the science, solutions, and politics of climate change. Also offers
related links." Edited by Joseph
Romm. climateprogress.org
- Grist.org.
Environmental journalism.
- Orion Magazine. One of America's premier venues for nature
writing and environmental policy essays.