Description

Overview:

In this course we will read and write about works that explore symbolic encounters in the American landscape. Some of the assigned works look at uneasy encounters between ordinary individuals and animals—wolves, eagles, sandhill cranes—that Americans have invested with symbolic significance; others explore conflicts between the pragmatic American impulse to impose order on unruly nature and the equally American inclination to enshrine the unaltered landscape.

Subject:

Arts and Humanities

Level:

Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division

Material Type:

Full Course

Author:

Cynthia Taft

Provider:

MIT

Provider Set:

MIT OpenCourseWare

Date Added:

02/16/2011