Wed., Sep. 9: Film

The Emerald Forest (1985)  [113 mins.]

Thurs., Sep. 10:
    Contemporary Images of Nature

Discussion of: Movie and your favorite landscape.

Tues., Sep. 15:
    Cultural Paradigms: Walking with Thoreau

Henry Thoreau, "Walking," in Walden and Other Writings, pp. 597-632.

Thurs., Sep. 17:
    Mythic Paradigms: Traditions about our Origins

New English Bible, Genesis: "The Creation," "The Flood."

Native American Stories: The World on a Turtle’s Back; Origin of the Creek Confederacy; Corn Mother; Adventure of Great Rabbit

Mon., Sep. 21:  Film

William Shakespeare, The Tempest (BBC-TV production) [150 mins.]

Tues., Sep. 22:
    Literary Paradigms: Europe Imagines a New World

Discussion: William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Thurs., Sep. 24:
    A Historical Perspective: the Pastoral Design

Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden, pp. 3-46. (Ch. 1, part of Ch. 2)
Selections from William Bradford and Cotton Mather
Optional: Marx, The Machine in the Garden, pp. 57-73.

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2. Different Ways of Seeing

Tues., Sep. 29:
    New England: Conflicting Views of Nature

William Cronon, Changes in the Land, pp. 3-6; Ch. 2, Ch. 3 (pp. 19-53)

Thurs., Oct. 1:
    Conquests: Political, Economic, and Metaphoric

Cronon, Changes in the Land, Ch. 5 (pp. 82-107); Conclusion (pp. 159-170)
Optional: Ch. 4 (pp. 54-81)

Tues., Oct. 6:
    Virginia: A New Political Imagination for a New Landscape

Selections from Jonathan Edwards
Robert Beverley discussed in Marx, The Machine in the Garden, pp. 75-88
Thomas Jefferson, Selections from: Notes on Virginia
Marx, The Machine in the Garden, pp. 116-144.

Thurs., Oct. 8:
    The Rise Of Technology: New Images for New Machines

Marx, The Machine in the Garden, pp. 145-169.

[FALL BREAK]

Thurs., Oct. 15:
    The Technological Sublime and the Romantic Response

Marx, The Machine in the Garden, pp. 190-226; 227-246
Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Locomotive poems.
Optional: Ralph Waldo Emerson, excerpts

Tues., Oct. 20:
    Creating a "Middle Landscape": Thoreau’s Experiment I

Thoreau, Walden: "Economy," pp. 3-40 only; "Where I Lived and What I Lived For"; "Sounds"

Thurs., Oct. 22:
    Creating a "Middle Landscape": Thoreau’s Experiment II

Thoreau, Walden: "The Bean Field"; "The Ponds"; "Higher Laws"; "Brute Neighbors," pp. 220-223 only

Tues., Oct. 27:
    Transformation of Imagery: A Pastoral Resolution?

Thoreau, Walden: "The Pond in Winter"; "Spring"

Thurs., Oct. 29:
    Ambivalence: Encounters with the Darker Sides of Nature

Thoreau, Excerpt from Maine Woods
Edgar Allan Poe, Descent into the Maelstrom
John Muir, Excerpts. "First Glimpse of the Sierra," "On the Brink of Yosemite Falls," "The Bear the Fly and the Grasshopper," "Emerson at Yosemite," "The Earthquake."
Teddy Roosevelt, Selections

Tues., Nov. 3:
    Reconstructing Wilderness: the Birth of Ecological Science

Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac: "Wilderness," and "The Land Ethic," pp. 188-226; "Thinking Like a Mountain," pp. 129-137; "Marshland Elegy," pp. 95-101
Also:   January: "January Thaw" pp. 3-5; August: "The Green Pasture" pp. 51-52; November: "Axe-in-Hand" and "A Mighty Fortress," pp. 67-77

Thurs., Nov. 5:
    The Eyes of Art: Painters, Photographers in the Landscape

Lecture: Prof. Carl N. Schmalz. Water-color painter and Emeritus Professor of Fine Arts. Co-founder of The Imagined Landscape .

Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, Chs. 6 and 8 ("Preserve the Wilderness!" and "John Muir") pp. 96-107; 122-140
Optional: Chs. 7 and 9 ("Wilderness Preserved" and "The Wilderness Cult") pp. 108-121; 141-160
James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere, "Eden Updated" (begin)

Tues., Nov. 10:
    Back to the Land: What Price Balance?

Wendell Berry, What are People For? "Damage," "Nature as Measure," "Word and Flesh," "An Argument for Diversity"
Tom Looker, New England Almanac: On the Edge of the Sea [sections with Nancy Pomroy and Ralph Stone: see cue sheet] (radio program on CD)
Richard Nelson, The Island Within, "Prologue," "A Face in the Raindrop"
Looker, New England Almanac: The Woodsman, or Natty Bumppo is Alive and Well and Living on an IBM Pension [complete, 30 min.] (CD)

Supplemental: Looker, New England Almanac: Voices from a Changing Landscape. Earl and Elsie Playful. [unfinished manuscript.]

Thurs., Nov. 12:
    Back to Whose Earth? Suburbia, Deep Ecology, Ecofeminism

James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere, "Eden Updated," (finish)
Bill Devall and George Sessions, "Deep Ecology"
Terry Tempest Williams, An Unspoken Hunger, "Water Songs," "Undressing the Bear"
Judith Plant, "Searching for Common Ground: Ecofeminism and Bioregionalism"

Tues., Nov. 17:
    Is the Earth Listening? Life in A post-Modern Garden

John McPhee, The Control of Nature, "Los Angeles Against the Mountains," pp. 183-272

Thurs., Nov. 19:
    The Paradigm Shift: The Scientist

Daniel Botkin, Discordant Harmonies: "A View from a Marsh," "Moose in the Wilderness," Ch. 1, 3, pp. 3-13; 27-49
Optional: "Why the Elephants Died," "In Mill Hollow," Ch. 2, 7, pp. 15-25; 101-113

[THANKSGIVING VACATION]

Tues., Nov. 24:
    The Paradigm Shift: The Curmudgeon

Alston Chase, In A Dark Wood, Ch. 8-9; Ch. 18-19 (50 pages)

Thurs., Nov. 26:
    Reimagining Disorder: Toward New Metaphors for Nature

Alston Chase, In A Dark Wood, Ch. 30
Botkin, Discordant Harmonies, "The Forest in the Computer," "The Moon in the Nautilus Shell," Ch. 8, 12, pp. 113-131; 185-192
Donald Worster, "The Ecology of Order and Chaos"

Tues., Dec. 8:
    Revisiting a Classic American Landscape (I)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (begin)

Thurs., Dec. 10:
    Revisiting a Classic American Landscape (II)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (finish)

Mon., Dec. 9:  Film

From the Heart of the World: Elder Brother’s Warning (PBS Documentary, 1991, uncut version)

Tues., Dec. 15:
    Reflections on our own Imaginings

William Cronon, "The Trouble with Wilderness"
Donald M. Waller, "Getting Back to the Right of Nature" (Excerpts)
Robert Frost, "Design"; "Mending Wall"