32102
Advanced Seminar
WiSe 21/22: Writing About and Living Through Climate Change
Fabius Mayland
Comments
In this course we will read science fiction alongside non-fiction writing with an eye towards climate change, ecological degradation, and other (real or imaginary) global catastrophes from the post-1945 period until today. Apart from gaining general knowledge on the science and politics of climate change itself, we will read both fictional and non-fictional texts as cultural responses to crises, and try to understand the work that they do or perform. We will also study the uses of literary styles and genres in writing about such real, ultimately political issues, and consider how fiction and non-fiction may share (or contest) the same literary spaces. Texts will include fiction by Liu Cixin, Octavia Butler, and Kim Stanley Robinson, and non-fiction by Rachel Carson, David Wallace-Wells, and Elizabeth Kolbert, along with relevant secondary literature. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2021-10-21 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2021-10-28 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2021-11-04 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2021-11-11 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2021-11-18 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2021-11-25 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2021-12-02 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2021-12-09 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2021-12-16 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-01-06 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-01-13 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-01-20 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-01-27 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-02-03 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-02-10 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-02-17 16:00 - 18:00