ENGL 476

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Topics in Literature and the Environment

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

From the developing field of "ecocriticism" to new historical examinations of canonical writers such as Thomson, Thoreau, or the "nature poets", to the new field of Science Studies, this advanced seminar examines a range of specialized topics related to literature and the environment.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated in separate semesters for graduate credit if topics vary; for undergraduates to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours if topics vary with permission of the English advising office. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 476 class schedule data for fall 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	56412	Lecture-Discussion	1G	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	G24 Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Oh, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/21/23-12/06/23 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Lit & Environment Section Info: FA23 ENGL 476 Lit & Environment - Rebecca Oh: Genre and Infrastructure in the Global South - How do genre and infrastructure both shape how things will go? We will ask this question with a focus on global South literature and urban centers, including Lagos, Cape Town, New Delhi, and Mumbai. We will consider how novelistic genres such as the bildungsroman, picaresque, detective story, climate fiction, magical realism, and comedy are deployed to probe the promises and pitfalls of infrastructure for urban residents and especially for the urban poor. How do literary genres critique, reveal, and theorize the spatial, temporal, and embodied distributions of built forms? In turn we will consider the aesthetic properties of infrastructure, the way built forms like roads, houses, cars, and sewers shape bodily movement and comportment, impact sensory perceptions, accrue affects and symbolism, produce urban subjectivities, and facilitate generic perceptions of the ‘modern.’ We will also consider how both these structuring forms index the environmental and economic forces that shape the global South’s expanding urbanization. Readings may include Helon Habila’s Oil on Water, Chris Abani’s Graceland, Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease, Chibundu Onuzo’s Welcome to Lagos, Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower, Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift, Ruchir Joshi’s The Last Jet Engine Laugh, Deepa Anappara’s Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, Ben Orki’s The Famished Road and Moshin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	56411	Lecture-Discussion	1U	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	G24 Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Oh, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/21/23-12/06/23 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Lit & Environment Section Info: FA23 ENGL 476 Lit & Environment - Rebecca Oh: Genre and Infrastructure in the Global South - How do genre and infrastructure both shape how things will go? We will ask this question with a focus on global South literature and urban centers, including Lagos, Cape Town, New Delhi, and Mumbai. We will consider how novelistic genres such as the bildungsroman, picaresque, detective story, climate fiction, magical realism, and comedy are deployed to probe the promises and pitfalls of infrastructure for urban residents and especially for the urban poor. How do literary genres critique, reveal, and theorize the spatial, temporal, and embodied distributions of built forms? In turn we will consider the aesthetic properties of infrastructure, the way built forms like roads, houses, cars, and sewers shape bodily movement and comportment, impact sensory perceptions, accrue affects and symbolism, produce urban subjectivities, and facilitate generic perceptions of the ‘modern.’ We will also consider how both these structuring forms index the environmental and economic forces that shape the global South’s expanding urbanization. Readings may include Helon Habila’s Oil on Water, Chris Abani’s Graceland, Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease, Chibundu Onuzo’s Welcome to Lagos, Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower, Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift, Ruchir Joshi’s The Last Jet Engine Laugh, Deepa Anappara’s Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, Ben Orki’s The Famished Road and Moshin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.