LAR-781P Writing Landscapes

3 Credits

This course explores plant narratives as products of humanistic and creative inquiry across different disciplines, including history of science and literary studies, to explore how writing shapes landscape. Students will be introduced to botanical collections (including herbaria and botanical gardens) as well as directed to engage scholarly studies and literary representations of the plant world, with an emphasis on key concepts in the emerging field of Plant Humanities. Thus, in this course we will strive to reckon with plants as something else than the homogeneous background of literary and non-literary narratives and instead consider how they shape them and affect our own reading of landscapes.