Choose either, to analyse using all the literary, discourse analysis and intertextual skills that you can resort to: 1.   Thoreau, excerpt from Walden (again):  Write a short text analysis of the passage, on pp. 2127-28, that begins "The whole bank, which is from twenty to forty feet high" and ends with "we may turn over a new leaf at last" 2. Whtiman, preface from Leaves of Grass (1855):   pp. 2734-2735: From the paragraph that starts "The art of art" to the end of next paragraph "and makes one" Thoreau, illustration from The New Yorker Whitman, in the opening page of Leaves of Grass  (1855)

 These are the reading prompts for you to comment on the texts for this week (with lovely pic of Margarida in Walden pond at the bottom!). You can choose one of the questions, or weave more than one into a commentary. 1.Compare Gary Snyder's "Wave" with Thoreau's "Walden" (poem). Which of them seems more eccentric? Why? 2.  Lawrence Buell, in the intro to  The Environmental Imagination  (1999), refers to "literature's capacity for articulating the non-human environment" (10). Do Emerson and (or) Thoreau achieve these goals? In what (different) ways? 3.. Buell also posits, in pp. 7-8, four ingredients that should comprise the more ecocentric texts... Can you pick up from the  Walden  excerpts parts that exemplify such ingredients, and briefly analyse them? 4. Write a short text analysis of the passage, on pp. 2127-28, that begins "The whole bank, which is from twenty to forty feet high" and ends with "we may turn over a new leaf a...

  We will study ecology, poetics, others, and kin(d), and more... For now, as you read Donna Haraway's "Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin" (2015), start researching, and (dis)entangling some concepts! Also, take 13 min to watch  this video  . The first writing prompt, as this is a processual course, is for you to dare share some of your notes (marginalia to Haraway's text or/and your impressions on the video), using the comment box,  in order to kickstart a class discussion.