Mapping Literary Ecologies

Mapping Literary Ecologies For this three-fold assignment it is your task 1) to select one of the assigned readings on our syllabus and prepare a short, written ecocritical analysis of it (500-750 words); 2) to make use of free online resources, such as google maps, google”Lit Trip,” or dipity.com, and create a map, timeline, or […]

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Writing Non-human Characters

     Character exercise: In Cordwainer Smith’s “Game of Rat and Dragon,” “Captain Wow” is a lusty reprobate of the feline persuasion: deadly, raunchy, and fun.  Part of the success of this character is the shameless anthropomorphism with which Smith writes him, but the technology of “pinlighting” also gives his personality strange credence.  For this assignment of […]

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