RUSS 329 - Literature and the Land: Nature Writing in Russia

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 HU, CD, WR

An examination of nature writing and forms of literary pastoralism, agrarianism, and primitivism in Russia and America. Topics include: the psychological and historical roots of the dream of an earthly paradise; the forms and evolution of nature writing; literature and the rise of an environmental consciousness; models of nature as garden and wilderness; literary constructions of “natural man” and “natural woman”; the literary and cultural feminization of nature; the politics of landscape; environmentalism and nationalism. Readings will include poems, novels, short stories, essays, and literary and cultural criticism.
Instructor: T. Newlin