Nov 04 2008
Oral Report Schedule
NOVEMBER 18: 1) Gesa Engbert, reporting on R. Nash, “Henry David Thoreau” and Walter Harding, “Thoreau’s Reputation”; 2) text by R. Nash, “The Romantic Wilderness” (still available)
NOVEMBER 25: 1) text by Daniel Peck, “Unlikely Kindred Spirits: Landscape in the Works of Asher Durand and Thoreau” (still available)
DECEMBER 2: 1) Peter Lars-Wenzel, reporting on texts by L. Buell, “Walden’s Environmental Projects“ and “Thoreau and the Natural Environment”
DECEMBER 9: Janina Schaber, reporting on M. Oelschlaeger, “Reflections on the Wilderness Act,” and Christopher Sellers, “Thoreau’s Body”
DECEMBER 16: 1) Ina Wichman, reporting on B. Dean, “Natural History, Romanticism, and Thoreau”; 2) Sarah Fißmer reporting on Sharon Cameron, “Writing Nature: Thoreau’s Journal” (still available);
JANUARY 6: Cecile Wiersdorff, reporting on W.Cronon, “A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative”
JANUARY 13: Lea Haunhorst, reporting on Legler, “Body Politics in American Nature Writing”
JANUARY 20: text by Callicott, “Leopold’s Land Aesthetic” (still available)
JANUARY 27: Sahar Shaghafi, reporting on Sue Ellen Campbell, “Science and Mysticism in the Himalayas”
FEBRUARY 3: Sarah-Alena Bade, reporting on Gary Snyder and Buddhism,”Blue Mountains Constantly Walking”
FEBRUARY 10: text by Turner, “The Politics of Modern Wilderness” (still available)