|
Week - 1
|
Course overview: The relationship of the environment and ecology to culture and literature |
|
Week - 2
|
A discussion on the environment, nature, and ecology: Human-nature interaction, dualism and monism, sustainability, etc. |
|
Week - 3
|
A historical overview of environmental and literary studies |
|
Week - 4
|
Ecocriticism: Definitions and waves |
|
Week - 5
|
Selected ecocritical readings |
|
Week - 6
|
Climate fiction: Definition, basic concepts, and approaches |
|
Week - 7
|
Climate fiction: Selected readings |
|
Week - 8
|
Ecofeminism: Woman, society/identity, environment and literature |
|
Week - 9
|
Ecofeminism: Selected readings |
|
Week - 10
|
Urbanization and literature |
|
Week - 11
|
Urbanization and literature: Selected readings |
|
Week - 12
|
Posthumanism and ecocriticism |
|
Week - 13
|
Posthumanism and ecocriticism: Selected readings |
|
Week - 14
|
The future of ecocriticism |