Environment and Literature in Korea

Exploration of creative ways of reading classical Korean literature through lens of environmental literary criticism. Conscious of the current environmental crisis, study hypothesizes that the natural environment would have been imagined, been represented, and functioned in different ways in a non-modern and non-Western world. Study approaches classical Korean literature as a gateway to different ways of thinking about the environment and as an arena where ideas on the environment can be challenged, debated, and revised. Exploration of topics and questions including reconceptualization of humans and nonhumans; historicization of the environment; literary and cultural representations of the environmental imagination. Reading of variety of texts written before 20th century in Korea, including supernatural stories, poetry on nature, travelogues, and political writings. Engages with a diverse range of aural, visual, and cinematic materials. Concurrently scheduled with course C252.

P/NP or letter grading.