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"Literature has always provided a space to consider the human relationship to our environment; in the age of the Anthropocene, when human impact on the planet is the defining feature, literature is also a space in which to analyse and to protest against environmental degradation. Using the work of key ecocritics, we will consider a series of texts that represent and explore environmental catastrophe. Our texts will look at various geographical spaces under the headings of Earth, Air, Water, Fire. In reading these texts, we will consider the role that literature plays in new discourses of the environmental humanities and environmental justice. Students will discuss and explore key concepts and debates in ecocriticism, and will be encouraged to nominate and select two cli-fi films that the class will watch and discuss. "
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