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Breadth Exam Reading List Proposal:
Literature and the Environment
Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness. New York: Ballantine, 1985. Print.
Alaimo, Stacy. Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2010. Print.
Armbruster, Karla, and Kathleen R. Wallace. Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2001. Print
Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1977. Print.
Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1995. Print.
Buell, Lawrence. "Toxic Discourse." Critical Inquiry 24.3 (1998): 639-665. Print.
Buell, Lawrence. The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. Print. [Particularly the introduction]
Christensen, Laird, Mark C. Long, and Frederick O. Waage. Teaching North American Environmental Literature. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008. Print.
Cilano, Cara and Elizabeth DeLoughrey. “Against Authenticity: Global Knowledges and Postcolonial Ecocriticism.” ISLE 14.1 (2007): 71-87. Print.
Clark, Timothy. The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. Print
Cronon, William. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New
York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1996. Print. [Particularly William Cronon “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” Richard White “‘Are You an Environmentalist or Do You Work For a Living?: Work and Nature,” Jennifer Price “Looking for Nature at the Mall: A Field Guide to the Nature Company”]
Darwin, Charles. Origin of Species, Norton Critical Edition, 3rd Ed. New York: Norton, 2001. Print. [Particularly chapters 1-4, 14]
Glotfelty, Cheryll, and Harold Fromm. The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1996. Print.
Haraway, Donna J. The Haraway Reader. New York: Routledge, 2003. Print. [Particularly “Teddy Bear Patriarchy” and “Cyborgs to Companion Species”]
Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1999. Print.
Heise, Ursula K. "The Changing Profession - the Hitchhiker's Guide to Ecocriticism." PMLA 121.2 (2006): 503. Print.
Huggan, Graham, and Helen Tiffin. Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment. London: Routledge, 2010. Print.
Latour, Bruno. Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1999. Print.
Lopez, Barry H. Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape. New York: Scribner, 1986. Print.
Love, Glen A. “Ecocriticism and Science: Toward Consilience?” New Literary History 30.3 (1999): 561-76. Print.
Morton, Timothy. The Ecological Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2010. Print.
Muir, John. My First Summer in the Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1990. Print.
Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven: Yale UP, 1967. Print.
Nixon, R. "Neoliberalism, Slow Violence, and the Environmental Picaresque." Modern Fiction Studies 55.3 (2009): 443-467. Print.
Opperman, Serpil. “Theorizing Ecocriticism: Toward a Postmodern Ecocritical Practice.” ISLE 13.2, 2006: 103-28. Print.
Phillips, Dana. The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003. Print.
Sandilands, Catriona. The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1999. Print.
Shakespeare, William, and Christine Dymkowski. The Tempest. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2000. Print.
Solnit, Rebecca. Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West. Berkeley: U of California P, 1999. Print.
Uexküll, Jakob. A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: With a Theory of Meaning. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2010. Print.
Watson, Robert N. Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2006. Print.
Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City. New York: Oxford UP, 1973. Print.
Wolfe, Cary. Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P, 2003. Print.