Engl
3050 Literature and the Environment, Fall 2022
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Online
Readings
last update: August 24, 2022
Notes:
- Here are various texts and sites
that will interest students in this class. 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
- "Fighting
Deforestation and Capitalism: How a Woman’s Refusal to Leave a Tree Helped
Preserve the Redwoods" [review of The
Legacy of Luna, by Julia Butterfly Hill, 2000]. By Amanda Nicholson.
Written for Engl 3050 Lit & Environment, Spring 2015.
- "Book
World: Barbara Kingsolver’s novel approach in ‘Flight Behavior’." By
Ron Charles. The Washington Post,
October 30, 2012.
- "The Butterfly Effect:
‘Flight Behavior,’ by Barbara Kingsolver." By Dominique Browning. The New York Times, Sunday Book Review,
November 9, 2012.
www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/books/review/flight-behavior-by-barbara-kingsolver.html
- "Couple Creates an Empire by Felling
Trees and Anyone in Their Way" [review of Serena]. By Janet Maslin, The
New York Times, October 5, 2008. www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/books/06masl.html
- "The
Heroes of This Novel Are Centuries Old and 300 Feet Tall" [review of The Overstory by Richard Powers]. By
Barbara Kingsolver. New York Times Book
Review, April 9, 2018. (Click here for
a cached version.)
- "The Homer of the
Ants" [review 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/
- "The Man Who Thinks Trees
Talk to Each Other" [review of The
Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben]. The Guardian [Manchester UK], September 12, 2016. www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/12/peter-wohlleben-man-who-believes-trees-talk-to-each-other
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"Mother Nature as a Hothouse Flower." [Review of Bill McKibben's The End of Nature.] By David Graber. The
Los Angeles Times, October 22, 1989. articles.latimes.com/1989-10-22/books/bk-726_1_bill-mckibben
- "The Sky is Melting"
[review of Bill McKibben's The End of
Nature]. By Nicholas Wade. The New
York Times, October 8, 1989. www.nytimes.com/1989/10/08/books/the-sky-is-melting.html
- "The Songs of Trees
by David George Haskell; review – looking and listening in the forest." By
Caspar Henderson. The Guardian,
July 7, 2017. www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/07/songs-of-trees-david-george-haskell-review
- "The Tragedy of the
American Wolf, Up Close; Plus two more books we're reading this month"
[review of American Wolf by Nate
Blakeslee]. By Christopher Keyes. Outside
Magazine Online, Oct 30, 2017. www.outsideonline.com/2255766/leader-pack
II. Recent Nonfiction
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"The
Insect Apocalypse is Here." By Brooke Jarvis. The New York Times Magazine, November 27, 2018. (Click here
for a cached version.)
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"Losing
Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change." By Nathaniel
Rich. Photographs and Videos by George Steinmetz. The New York Times Magazine, August 1, 2018.
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"How
Republicans Are ‘Weaponizing’ Public Office Against Climate Action."
By David Gelles. The New York Times, August 5, 2022. (Click here
for a cached version.)
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"A
Burning Planet: Should the climate movement embrace sabotage?" By Thea
Riofrancos. The Nation, July 25, 2022. (Click here
for a cached version.)
III. Various
Articles Related to Course Texts
-
"Meddling With Monarchs." By Margaret Renkl. The New York Times,
October 5, 2017. www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/monarch-butterfly-migration-extinction.html
- "Visiting Our Past: Logging
dangers filled our hills." By Rob Neufeld. Asheville Citizen-Times, May
10, 2020. faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/readings/logging_smokies.pdf
- "Carolina Panthers."
By Dan Lazar, Director of Education, Western North Carolina Nature. 2010. www.wildwnc.org/education/naturalists-notes/carolina-panthers
- "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
- Julia Butterfly Hill profile on
NBC Dateline News Magazine, Feb 14, 1999 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFRdy7o3DPE&feature=related
- "Margaret Atwood: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, 50 years on."
By Margaret Atwood. The Guardian [Manchester, England]. Friday, December
7, 2012. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/07/why-rachel-carson-is-a-saint
- "Ron Rash Feature."
Ten poems by Rash. Story South dot com, Summer 2002. www.storysouth.com/summer2002/rashfeaturepoems.html.
Accessed January 2018.
- "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
- "Wendell Berry pulling his
personal papers from UK: Writer protesting coal's influence." By Cheryl
Truman. The Lexington Herald Leader,
June 23, 2010. www.kentucky.com/2010/06/23/1319383/wendell-berry-pulling-his-personal.html
IV. Authors Online
- Horace Kephart: Revealing an
Enigma. Hunter Library Special Collections and the Mountain Heritage Center,
Western Carolina University. www.wcu.edu/library/digitalcoll/kephart/
- "John Muir Writings"
at Yosemite Online, an unofficial Yosemite website. www.yosemite.ca.us/john_muir_writings/
- "The John Muir
Exhibit," at sierraclub.org. vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/default.aspx
- 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
VII. Materials to Use in Class
- B.
Kingsolver, Flight Behavior, discussion questions. At "lit
lovers" web site: www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/13-fiction/8988-flight-behavior-kingsolver?start=3