Center for the Environment - Harvard University
 Center for the Environment - Harvard University
 Center for the Environment - Harvard University
 Center for the Environment - Harvard University

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Environmental Courses

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Literature and Comparative Literature

Literature 115. Literature and the Environment - (New Course) 3677
K. Thornber Fall W., 3-5
Examines how literature from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe has addressed environmental concerns and crises. Focuses on literary works that explore the uneasy relationship between human desire and the survival of the non-human world. Introduces concepts of ecocriticism, ecofeminism, ecology, environmental criticism and environmental justice. Critical readings by Adamson, Bhabha, Buell, Conley, Dimock, Foucault, Glotfelty, Said, Stein, Snyder, Williams, and others.