Spring 2023 Writing UN3028 section 001

LOST & FOUND IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

CG SEM - ANTHROPOCENE

Call Number 16574
Day & Time
Location
T 4:10pm-6:00pm
511 Kent Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Madeleine J Watts
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

We are living through a time of unprecedented change. This change is characterized by “solastalgia,” a word that describes a response to environmental loss in our daily lives which encompasses both pain and solace. In this course we will think seriously about the imperative to notice, pay attention, and remember that which is changing or disappearing. How might we work through and with loss, and how might we harness attention and awareness to envision different futures and new creative approaches? Students will consider the ways writers and other artists are working with losing and finding in a posthuman world across different forms, genres, and cultures. Will take an imaginative and interdisciplinary attitude to these questions, studying literary work alongside visual art, anthropology, psychology, literary theory, and science. We will consider extinction, elegy, landscape, geological temporalities, fragments, trash, and ghosts. In his call to arms, The Great Derangement, author Amitav Ghosh writes that climate change resists so many of the literary and artistic forms we currently possess. As such, he calls for an embrace of hybrid genres. Through reflections, critical essays, and their own creative work, students will think seriously about hybridity and the imaginative challenge of being alive in the world today.

Web Site Vergil
Department Writing
Enrollment 8 students (15 max) as of 9:05AM Thursday, March 28, 2024
Subject Writing
Number UN3028
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Campus Morningside
Fee $15 Creative Writing C
Section key 20231WRIT3028W001