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