Take-home final exam:<\/p>\n
You must answer the question in Section 1 and select three questions to answer in Section 2.
\nSection 1
\nOver this course, we have covered many of the ways in which we can perceive, experience, and value forms of ecologies, environmentalism, and \u201cnature\u201d in Irish literature and culture. Through both theory and practice, we have examined various ways literary culture has responded to past, current, or future events in the modern environmental crisis. For this mandatory question, you need to write at least a 500-word response answering the following question:
\nHow have the works we read in the course changed the way you perceive and value Irish environmental literature?
\nPlease provide at least three literary and\/or cultural examples (literature, film, or visual culture) and one critical example (essays) to support your response. You can use the pronoun \u201cI\u201d in your answer.
\n(The readings are listed at the very end of this document.)<\/p>\n
Section 2
\nSelect only three out of the following five questions to answer. Each answer should be at least 300 words long.
\n. 1) Explain how place, space, and memory function in Heaney\u2019s \u201cDigging\u201d and James Joyce\u2019s \u201cThe Mirage of the Fisherman of Aran\u201d and\/or \u201cThe City of the Tribes.\u201d In your answer, make sure to briefly define terms, such as the difference between place and space. ?
\n. 2) Apply a material ecocritical reading to Stoker\u2019s The Snake\u2019s Pass. Your answer must define material ecocriticism to provide context. You can select only a portion of the novel to cover. ?
\n. 3) Explain the concept of \u201cSolastalgia\u201d (i.e., homesickness from environmental damage) and apply it to Boland\u2019s \u201cIn Our Own Country\u201d and Meehan\u2019s \u201cDeath of a Field.\u201d ?
\n. 4) Apply an ecofeminist reading to Carr\u2019s By the Bog of Cats…. Your answer must define ecofeminism to provide context. You can select only a portion of the play to cover. ?
\n. 5) Define the real and imaginative elements of oil in the energy humanities. Explain how O\u2019Donnell\u2019s The Pipe or O\u2019Kelly\u2019s Little Thing, Big Thing is illustrative of the energy humanities and ecocriticism more generally. You might wish to include the Anthropocene in your response. ?
\nEach response must answer the question directly and provide textual support as evidence.<\/p>\n
Readings:
\nBarry, Kevin. \u201cFjord of Killary.\u201d The New Yorker (Feb. 1, 2010).
\nhttp:\/\/www .newyorker .com\/magazine\/2010\/02\/01\/fjord-of-killary
\nBoland, Evan, \u201cIn Our Own Country\u201d (2008) and Oliver Comerford, Distance (2008). The Poetry Project: Poetry and Art from Ireland. http:\/\/thepoetryproject.ie\/poems\/distance-oliver- comerford-in-our-own-country-eavan-boland\/ (watch the video and read the poem)
\nBoyer, Dominic and Imre Szeman. \u201cThe Rise of Energy Humanities.\u201d University Affairs (Feb. 12, 2014): http:\/\/www.universityaffairs.ca\/opinion\/in-my-opinion\/the-rise-of-energy-humanities
\nCrutzen, Paul and Eugene Stoermer. \u201cThe Anthropocene.\u201d Global Change Newsletter 41 (2000): 17- 18.
\nhttp:\/\/www.igbp.net\/download\/18.316f18321323470177580001401\/1376383088452\/NL41. pdf
\nEmerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature. Boston: Thurston, Torry, and Company, 1849. Project Gutenberg: http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/29433\/29433-h\/29433-h.htm
\nHeaney, Seamus. \u201cDigging\u201d (1966). Poetry Foundation: http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poem\/177017 (listen to the audio link of Heaney reading)
\nHeaney, Seamus. \u201cFeeling into Words.\u201d Preoccupations (1980). https:\/\/boginsdotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/feeling-into-words.pdf
\nGladwin ~ Irish Ecocriticism Syllabus ~ Concordia University ~ 2
\nKavanagh, Patrick. \u201cThe Great Hunger\u201d (1942). All Poetry: http:\/\/allpoetry.com\/The-Great-Hunger
\nMeehan, Paula. \u201cDeath of a Field\u201d (2005). Poetry International:
\nhttp:\/\/www.poetryinternationalweb.net\/pi\/site\/poem\/item\/3065\/auto\/0\/DEATH-OF-A- FIELD
\nSoper, Kate. \u201cBeyond Consumerism: Reflections on Gender Politics, Pleasure and Sustainable Consumption.\u201d KVINDER, K\u00d8N & FORSKNING 3-4 (2009): 92-100. https:\/\/tidsskrift.dk\/index.php\/KKF\/article\/view\/44314
\nUllrich, J.K. \u201cClimate Fiction: Can Books Save the Planet?\u201d Atlantic (Aug. 14, 2015). http:\/\/www .theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2015\/08\/climate-fiction-margaret- atwood-literature\/400112
\nYeats, W.B. Cathleen Ni Houlihan (1903). http:\/\/www.aughty.org\/pdf\/cathleen_ni_houlihan.pdf
\nYeats, W.B. \u201cThe Lake Isle of Innisfree.\u201d The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892). Poetry
\nFoundation: http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poem\/172053<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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