ENGL 578

Fall 2014

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Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of graduate study of literature or consent of instructor.

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61218
Lecture-Discussion
AWS
2:00PM -4:50PM
M
1026 Lincoln Hall
Stenport, A
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/25/14-12/10/14
Section Info:
Topic Section AWS: Imagining the Arctic ''The Arctic' has historically been imagined by Southerners as remote and desolate, as a white or blank space upon which to project dreams and fears, while the circumpolar region has provided a bountiful home for indigenous populations for millennia. Focus on the Arctic is increasing in the wake of climate change, accelerated resource extraction, and augmented geopolitical tension. Through the burgeoning field of Critical Arctic Studies, humanistic inquiry is contributing new ways to understanding the region's past, present, and future, by providing a rich set of interpretive approaches that counter dominant epistemological models of the Arctic influenced by policy generation and the natural sciences. This interdisciplinary course investigates representations of the Arctic in literature, art, cinema, media, and scientific and geographical writing over the past century and a half, spanning material from North America (documentaries, experimental cinema, and Hollywood features by Robert Flaherty, James Balog, Stan Brakhage, and Howard Hawks),Britain (figurations of the lost Franklin expedition; films by Stan Brakhage), continental Europe, and the Nordic Region. Interpretive approaches include ecocriticism; post-colonialism; indigenous studies; visual, film and media theory; and Cold War studies. Open to graduate students from any humanities or social sciences discipline, the course emphasizes cross-disciplinary interaction and engagement. In addition to a final research project, the course will include the creation of digitally networked content and approaches to building a portfolio of Arctic-related teaching material of relevance to students' primary disciplines.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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