Showing posts with label landscape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landscape. Show all posts

Monday, September 10, 2012

The Culture of Nature: Alexander Wilson

Alexander Wilson "reads" landscapes as texts, much like we practiced reading pink flamingos as texts during week 1.

What do you think of how he organizes his book--- as "framed by two events, two places"? In the spirit of introducing ourselves to the field of ecocriticism, if we think of it as a way of looking at the world, what does Wilson's approach allow him to do?

What is similar and different between his arguments and Jennifer Price's?  Like Price, Wilson outlines lots of paradoxes or ironies within environmental discourse.  What are some of these?

If you were to examine a landscape or event in the way that Wilson does, to update his work and apply it to your own interests, what would you look at?