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EN270: Transnational Feminism, 2011/12 Sorcha Gunne s.gunne@warwick.ac.uk Office: H540 Office Hour: Tuesday, 11am. The Landscape is Changing How to Lose F riends and Alienate People: Bojan How do you solve a problem like Maria? Desperately Seeking Sonja. HOBART.
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EN270: Transnational Feminism, 2011/12 SorchaGunne s.gunne@warwick.ac.uk Office: H540 Office Hour: Tuesday, 11am
The Landscape is Changing How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: Bojan How do you solve a problem like Maria? Desperately Seeking Sonja
Lawrence Buell: The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture “[T]he art of bringing to full personal consciousness and articulating a sense of place is arduous, and for new world settler cultures especially so, given the relative shortness of their history in place”. “These cultures face an uphill battle of jump-starting the invention of place-sense by superimposing imported traditions and jerry-building new ones” (257).
‘My mother is lace. My father is wood. I am not…. My mother is lace. My father is wood. I am the lace tearing in two. I am the wood breaking in half’ (383)