Enviromental Lit 1
Refers to the meaning that it’s a perfect society and everybody is happy.
What is a Utopia?
Refers to a society that it very unfair and bad.
What is a dystopia?
Teaches about concern for environmental issues. Allows for readers to develop an understanding of the natural world around them.
What is Environmental Literature?
Anthropocentrism, Ecocentrism, Biocentrism, Deep ecology.
What are some types of environmental philosophies?
Artists or intellectuals in the romantic era.
Who are the romantics?
A philosophical, spiritual and literary movement
What is the Transcendentalist Movement?
American marine biologist known for Silent Spring and Under the Sea-Wind.
Who is Rachel Carson?
Environmental science book about the overuse and harmful effects of pesticides.
What is Silent Spring?
Took place in the late 18th century to the early 19th century. Explored nature, emotion, and individual connection to the one’s environment in literature.
What was the romantic era?
American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist. He is most famous for his book “A sound County Almanac”.
Who was Aldo Leopold?
American naturalist known for Walden and Civil Disobedience.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
American essayist known for Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet, and Experience.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Biology degree.
What degree did Rachel Carson major in?
Focuses on the relationship between humans and the natural world, emphasizing the need for sustainable and ethical interactions with the environment.
What is environmental philosophy?
Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.
Who was John Muir?
1820-1830
When did the Transcendentalist Movement originate?
Said this quote: “The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.”
Who is Ursula K Le Guin?
1962
What is the publication date of Silent Spring?
First wave of "Big Six" English poets.
Who were William Blake, Willaim Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
Second wave of "Big Six" English Poets.
Who were John Kelts, Gorge Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley?