Writing and Reading Environmental Challenge
This short course will trace a history of environmental writing through exploring a range of international fiction, poetry and literary non-fiction.
Writing and Reading Environmental Challenge
| Details | Description |
|---|---|
| When | Wednesday evenings, 6pm to 8 pm |
| Where | University of Bristol Arts Complex, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB |
| Tutor | Dr Sue Edney, Sam Le Butt and Hazel Streeter |
| Description |
This 8-week course will explore writing and reading about the environment, past and present, in a range of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction. Each year, we choose a variety of texts and their themes through which to examine how environmental challenges, from climate breakdown to loss of habitat, affect the writing and our responses as readers and participants. Although some texts might be carried over from one course to the next, the teaching themes are different, so that former participants can return to new adventures. There are always different aspects to the same story – reading it twice uncovers twice as much!
In addition, we will encourage each other to explore our own creative potential around a chosen theme that arises from our reading through the weeks – for example, a particular tree, a route to work, 'landscape', waste disposal ... bring your ideas!'
Dr Sue Edney lectures in English at Bristol University. She is book reviews editor for Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, and specialises in teaching and researching literature of all periods related to the environment and human/nonhuman connections. |
| Sample reading list |
Max Porter, Lanny (2020) |
| Course fee |
£180 |
| Previous qualifications/experience | No qualifications needed. Open to the public. |
Booking for this course has now closed
Contacts
Please address any enquiries about the courses to:
Department of English Part-time Courses
School of Humanities
3-5 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB
Email: english-lifelong@bristol.ac.uk
Telephone: 0117 455 8271