To understand role poets can play in fighting climate change, go back to the Romantics and especially “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”
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Tag Archives: Barbara Kingsolver
Wanted: Poets to Fight Climate Change
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Primal Hatred of Coyotes & Blacks
In reflecting upon primal race hatred, I find a parallel hatred–of coyotes–in Kingsolver’s novel “Prodigal Summer.”
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Nature Lit Has Healed for Centuries
For years my Intro to Lit class has had a nature theme.
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Bacchae, climate change, environmental issues, Euripides, Flight Behavior, John Keats, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lord Byron, Lucille Clifton, Margaret Atwood, Mary Oliver, Midsummer Night's Dream, nature poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Wendell Berry, William Blake, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Year of the Flood | Comments closed
Kingsolver Explains Climate Denial
Rush Limbaugh has been calling Hurricanes Harvey and Irma liberal conspiracies. In “Flight Behavior,” Barbara Kingsolver shows the dangerous impact of such pronouncements.
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged climate change, climate change denial, Flight Behavior, global warming, Rush Limbaugh | Comments closed
To Save Planet, Scientists Must Protest
Saturday’s March for Science is a sign that scientists are realizing they don’t have the luxury of remaining aloof from politics. Barbara Kingsolver’s “Flight Behavior” explores the issue.
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged climate change, Flight Behavior, French Lieutenant's Woman, global warming, John Fowles, science education, Science March | Comments closed
Teaching Euripides in the Age of Title IX
Recently a student reported me for using sexist language in the classroom. (This while teaching a Kingsolver novel and Euripides’s “The Bacchae.”) The language did not reflect my own views, but the complaint made me realize that I need to be more careful with this generation of students.
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Alexander Pope, Bacchae, Donald Trump, Euripides, Flight Behavior, Maxine Hong Kingston, Rape of the Lock, Sexism, sexual harassment, Title IX, Woman Warrior | Comments closed
Using Lit to Discover Purpose in Science
My Intro to Literature students, few of whom are English majors, are often startled to discover that literature understands them better than they understand themselves. Today’s post describes the encounters between two science majors and, respectively, Wordsworth’s “Intimations of Immortality” and Kingsolver’s “Flight Behavior.”
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Tables Turned", climate change, Flight Behavior, Humanities, Intimations of Immortality, Science, William Wordsworth | Comments closed
A Talk with a Cli-Fi Activist
Dan Bloom, inventor of the term cli-fi for climate fiction, tirelessly advocates for such fiction, regarding it as indispensable in the struggle to save the human race. I interview him in today’s blog.
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Monarchs & Ezekiel’s Burning Coals of Fire
Barbara Kingsolver’s “Flight Behavior” shows us Baptists farmers, not normally friends of environmentalists, turning to religious language to save the environment.
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged clearcutting, climate change, Flight Behavior, global warming, habitat destruction, monarch butterflies | Comments closed