Treks and Texts, Lead Respondent Assignments

 

 

January 20:

Popular Songs About Nature

Meriweather Lewis, Nature Writing, 95-100

Standing Bear, Nature Writing, 326-331

January 27:

            Abbey, “The First Morning,” and “The Serpents of Paradise”

February 3:

                  Abbey, “The Dead Man at Grandview Point” and “Bedrock and Paradise”

February 10:

                  Abbey: Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks

February 17:

                  Romanticism and Nature

                  Thoreau (handout of selected Walden quotes)

February 24:

                  Stegner, Nature Writing, 514-519

            Leopold, Nature Writing, 376-397

April 21

                  Solnit (handout)

                  Sala (handout)

                  Oliver, poetry research assignment