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*Bruce Meyer, ed. ''Clif-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change''. Holstein, ON: Exile Editions, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-55096-670-1  
 
*Bruce Meyer, ed. ''Clif-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change''. Holstein, ON: Exile Editions, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-55096-670-1  
 
*Jaspreet Singh, ''Face: A Novel of the Anthropocene''. Victoria, BC: Touchwood Editions, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-927366-97-4
 
*Jaspreet Singh, ''Face: A Novel of the Anthropocene''. Victoria, BC: Touchwood Editions, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-927366-97-4
 
Further primary reading:
 
*[Cherie Dimaline, ''The Marrow Thieves'', 2017]
 
*[Premee Mohamed, ''The Annual Migration of Clouds'', 2021]
 
  
 
PLEASE NOTE: Use the time until the beginning of term to order (and, ideally, immerse yourself in the reading of) the novels. Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP.  
 
PLEASE NOTE: Use the time until the beginning of term to order (and, ideally, immerse yourself in the reading of) the novels. Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP.  
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*Introduction: Cli-fi and Eco-crit
 
*Introduction: Cli-fi and Eco-crit
 
*Reading: Bruce Meyer, "Introduction." ''Clif-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change''. Holstein, ON: Exile Editions, 2017.
 
*Reading: Bruce Meyer, "Introduction." ''Clif-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change''. Holstein, ON: Exile Editions, 2017.
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*Contexts: Atwood 2015; Ghosh 2016; Armitstead 2021
  
 
===Session 2: 27 October===
 
===Session 2: 27 October===
*Literature and Climate Change
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*Literature, Climate Change, and Climate Justice (in Canada)
 
*Reading: Johns Putra and Sultzbach 2022; Kerber and Lousley 2022
 
*Reading: Johns Putra and Sultzbach 2022; Kerber and Lousley 2022
  
 
===Session 3: 3 November===
 
===Session 3: 3 November===
*Ecocritical Approaches to Literature
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*Ecocritical Approaches to Literature (in Canada)
*Reading:  
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*Reading: Banting, "Ecocriticism in Canada" (2015)
  
 
===Session 4: 10 November===
 
===Session 4: 10 November===
 
*Short Story I
 
*Short Story I
*Theory:  
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*Context Reading:  
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*Background Reading: MacLeod, "The Canadian Short Story in English" (2015)
  
 
===Session 5: 17 November===
 
===Session 5: 17 November===
 
*Short Story II
 
*Short Story II
*Theory
+
*Context Reading:
  
 
===Session 6: 24 November===
 
===Session 6: 24 November===
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*Primary Reading: ''Green Grass, Running Water''
 
*Primary Reading: ''Green Grass, Running Water''
 
*Textual Analysis
 
*Textual Analysis
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*Background Reading: Lally Garuer and Arman Garnet Ruffo, "Indigenous Writing: Poetry and Prose" (2009)
  
 
===Session 8: 8 December===
 
===Session 8: 8 December===
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===Session 9: 15 December===
 
===Session 9: 15 December===
 
*Primary Reading: ''Green Grass, Running Water''
 
*Primary Reading: ''Green Grass, Running Water''
*
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*Secondary Reading: Rebecca Lynne Fullan (2019)
  
 
===Session 10: 22 December===
 
===Session 10: 22 December===
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==Primary Reading==
 
==Primary Reading==
 
*see above
 
*see above
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==Recommended Further Primary Reading==
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*[Cherie Dimaline, ''The Marrow Thieves'', 2017]
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*[Premee Mohamed, ''The Annual Migration of Clouds'', 2021]
  
 
==Secondary and Further Reading==
 
==Secondary and Further Reading==
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*Horn, Eva, and Hannes Berghaller. ''The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities''. Routledge, 2019.  
 
*Horn, Eva, and Hannes Berghaller. ''The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities''. Routledge, 2019.  
 
*Irr, Caren. "Climate Fiction in English." ''Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature'', 2017.  
 
*Irr, Caren. "Climate Fiction in English." ''Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature'', 2017.  
*Kerber, Jenny, and Cheryl Lousley, “Literary Responses to Indigenous Climate Justice and the Canadian Settler-State,” in The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate, ed. Adeline Johns-Putra and Kelly Sultzbach, Cambridge Companions to Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 269–80.  
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*Kerber, Jenny, and Cheryl Lousley, “Literary Responses to Indigenous Climate Justice and the Canadian Settler-State,” in ''The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate'', ed. Adeline Johns-Putra and Kelly Sultzbach, Cambridge Companions to Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 269–80.  
 
*Kluwick, Ursula Maria. "Talking about Climate Change: The Ecological Crisis and Narrative Form." ''The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism''. Oxford: OUP, 2014.  
 
*Kluwick, Ursula Maria. "Talking about Climate Change: The Ecological Crisis and Narrative Form." ''The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism''. Oxford: OUP, 2014.  
 
*[https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-974 Lousley, Cheryl. “Ecocriticism.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press, 2015—. Article published October 27, 2020.]
 
*[https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-974 Lousley, Cheryl. “Ecocriticism.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press, 2015—. Article published October 27, 2020.]

Revision as of 17:35, 12 October 2022

    under construction
  • Course:
  • Time: Thursday 12-14h
  • Venue:
  • Course Description:

Please, buy and read the following novels and short story anthology (if possible, order soon via Bueltmann & Gerriets, if unobtainable e-versions are ok):

  • Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water [1993]. New York: Bantam, 1994. ISBN: 978-0-553-37368-4
  • Bruce Meyer, ed. Clif-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change. Holstein, ON: Exile Editions, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-55096-670-1
  • Jaspreet Singh, Face: A Novel of the Anthropocene. Victoria, BC: Touchwood Editions, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-927366-97-4

PLEASE NOTE: Use the time until the beginning of term to order (and, ideally, immerse yourself in the reading of) the novels. Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP.

  • Course Requirements
  • Requirements for 6 KP: regular attendance and an (oral/)written contribution in the form of either a presentation + written outline (10-12 pp) or seminar paper (15 pp), based on the topic of the seminar.
  • As part of the "Aktive Teilnahme" regulation:
    Die aktive Teilnahme besteht aus folgenden Komponenten
    - regelmäßige Anwesenheit: max. 3 Abwesenheiten und gegebenenfalls Nacharbeit
    - Vor- und Nachbereitung des Seminarstoffs (Expertengruppen, Vorbereitung/Lektüre von Texten) 
    - Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Fragestellung aus dem Problembereich des Seminars, durch:
      *Übernahme von Ergebnispräsentationen (Gruppenarbeit) und 
      *Entwicklung einer Research Paper Outline im Laufe des Semesters: 
       Wahl eines Themenbereichs (bis letzte Sitzung vor Weihnachten),
       Abstract mit Fragestellung inkl. Forschungsbibliographie (RPO) (bis 24. Jan), 
       Vorstellung der Fragestellung (letzte Semestersitzung).

Session 1: 20 October

  • Introduction: Cli-fi and Eco-crit
  • Reading: Bruce Meyer, "Introduction." Clif-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change. Holstein, ON: Exile Editions, 2017.
  • Contexts: Atwood 2015; Ghosh 2016; Armitstead 2021

Session 2: 27 October

  • Literature, Climate Change, and Climate Justice (in Canada)
  • Reading: Johns Putra and Sultzbach 2022; Kerber and Lousley 2022

Session 3: 3 November

  • Ecocritical Approaches to Literature (in Canada)
  • Reading: Banting, "Ecocriticism in Canada" (2015)

Session 4: 10 November

  • Short Story I
  • Context Reading:
  • Background Reading: MacLeod, "The Canadian Short Story in English" (2015)

Session 5: 17 November

  • Short Story II
  • Context Reading:

Session 6: 24 November

  • Short Story III
  • Theory: Ecoprecarity

Session 7: 1 December

  • Primary Reading: Green Grass, Running Water
  • Textual Analysis
  • Background Reading: Lally Garuer and Arman Garnet Ruffo, "Indigenous Writing: Poetry and Prose" (2009)

Session 8: 8 December

  • Primary Reading: Green Grass, Running Water
  • Secondary Reading: Lousley 2004

Session 9: 15 December

  • Primary Reading: Green Grass, Running Water
  • Secondary Reading: Rebecca Lynne Fullan (2019)

Session 10: 22 December

  • Primary Reading: Face
  • Textual Analysis

Session 11: 12 January

  • Primary Reading: Face
  • Theory: Chakrabarty 2019

Session 12: 19 January

  • Primary Reading: Face
  • Theory: Vermeulen 2020

Session 13: 26 January

Session 14: 02 February

  • discussion of research papers
  • feedback on evaluation
  [Hand in research papers until 15 March 2023]

Tools

Primary Reading

  • see above

Recommended Further Primary Reading

  • [Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves, 2017]
  • [Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds, 2021]

Secondary and Further Reading

  • Chakrabarty, Dipesh. “The Climate of History: Four Theses.” Critical Inquiry 35:2 (2009): 197-222.
  • Chakrabarty, Dipesh. The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
  • Craps, Stef, and Rick Crownshaw. "Introduction: The Rising Tide of Climate Change Fiction." Studies in the Novel 50.1 (2018): 1-8.
  • Crutzen, Paul J. "Geology of Mankind: The Anthropocene." Nature 415 (2002): 23.
  • Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2016.
  • Glotfelty, Cheryll. "Introduction: Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis." The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1996. xv-xxxvii.
  • Horn, Eva, and Hannes Berghaller. The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities. Routledge, 2019.
  • Irr, Caren. "Climate Fiction in English." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, 2017.
  • Kerber, Jenny, and Cheryl Lousley, “Literary Responses to Indigenous Climate Justice and the Canadian Settler-State,” in The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate, ed. Adeline Johns-Putra and Kelly Sultzbach, Cambridge Companions to Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 269–80.
  • Kluwick, Ursula Maria. "Talking about Climate Change: The Ecological Crisis and Narrative Form." The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism. Oxford: OUP, 2014.
  • Lousley, Cheryl. “Ecocriticism.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press, 2015—. Article published October 27, 2020.
  • Lousley, Cheryl. “Spectral Environmentalisms: National Politics and Gothic Ecologies in Silent Spring, Surfacing and Salt Fish Girl.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 25:1 (September 2018): 412-428.
  • Lousley, Cheryl, and Stephanie Posthumus. “Canadian Forum on Bruno Latour’s An Inquiry into Modes of Existence.” Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 4.1 (Winter 2016): 110-113.
  • O’Brien, Susie, and Cheryl Lousley, ed. “Environmental Futurity.” Special Issue of Resilience: Journal of Environmental Humanities 4.2-3 (Spring-Fall 2017).
  • Soper, Ella, and Nicholas Bradley (ecs.) Greening the Maple: Canadian Ecocriticism in Context. University of Calgary Press, 2013.
  • Sugars, Cynthia (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Oxford University Press, 2015.
  • Alexander MacLeod, "The Canadian Short Story in English: Aesthetic Agency, Social Change, and the Shifting Canon"
  • Pamela Banting, "Ecocriticism in Canada"
  • Tally, Robert T., and Christine M Battista (eds.). Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016.
  • Trexler, Adam. Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change. Charlottesville, VA, and London: U of Virginia P, 2015.
  • Trexler, Adam, and Adeline Johns-Putra. "Climate Change in Literature and Literary Criticism." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 2.2. (2011): 185-200.

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