ENGL 563

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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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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
32280
Lecture-Discussion
B
2:00PM -4:30PM
T
307 English Building
Soto Crespo, R
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/20/26-05/06/26
Section Info:
SP26 ENGL 563 - Seminar in Literary Themes and Movements - Ramon Soto Crespo - Rewilding Nature: World Literature and the Anthropocene - This seminar will focus on the theories of Bruno Latour and Walter Mignolo, as well as their applications to the field of world literature. We will begin the course with selected critical readings of the first wave of environmental criticism to gain a clear sense of its foundations. We will read selections from Rachel Carson, James Lovelock, Ursula Heise, Rob Nixon, Jason Moore, Isabella Tree, Jeffrey Di Leo, John Thieme, and others. Fictional texts to be considered are: Wilson Harris’s Heartland, W.H. Hudson’s Green Mansions, J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World, Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, Judith Ortiz Cofer’s The Meaning of Consuelo, Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco, James Bradley’s Clade, and Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior. The course examines a particular aspect of narratives surrounding rewilding. It studies non-fictional accounts of restoring ecological processes, reintroducing lost species, and balancing human needs with wilderness, alongside works of fictional imagination that explore rewilding nature and the creation of alien landscapes. At the heart of these fictional and non-fictional stories lies a dominant inward perspective, with the narrator gradually shifting into a posthuman discourse. Other topics of interest are decoloniality, environmental justice, in-between ecosystems, and post-humanities. Students will be required to participate actively, read consistently, give a presentation, and write a research paper.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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