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Couturier: class visit
Images from our class visit today with Lisa Couturier, up on the college web. And from our trip to Colchester farm, with thanks to Shannon and to Insley (for the use of the camera). The pen is a shove… more →
Earth's Eye
May 12 class plan
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wrote 7 months ago: Comment discussion Your experiences this week. Here’s a 2006 editorial summarizing the explosi … more →
Downtown Alive
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wrote 8 months ago: The 2009 Interactive Journalism class project will be Downtown Alive. Our audience is the downtown b … more →
Couturier: class visit
wrote 8 months ago: Images from our class visit today with Lisa Couturier, up on the college web. And from our trip to C … more →
April 14 class plan
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wrote 8 months ago: Terrific project ideas. Here’s our discussion plan for next class, organized in our three them … more →
Couturier: anthropomorphism and estuary
wrote 8 months ago: Lisa Couturier brings the word anthropomorphism into her essay “A Banishment of Crows.” … more →
Upcoming field studies
wrote 8 months ago: Wednesday April 8: Colchester Farm For all who don’t have a 9.30 class, we will be leaving out … more →
Wendell Berry: love and loss
wrote 9 months ago: In addition to his significant writings in nonfiction, Berry is known as well for his poetry and fic … more →
Dillard's style: fractal, like the creek
wrote 9 months ago: As a follow-up to our discussion of Dillard’s style of writing, I would argue that many of the … more →
Dillard: speaking up for the creation
wrote 9 months ago: In case you are wondering, the wave breast/heave shoulder that Dillard gets to in the last chapter d … more →
Dillard: Like a Photographer's Negative
wrote 9 months ago: Dillard mobilizes lots of figures (metaphors, metonyms, similes) in meditating on what she calls … more →
Dillard's Exuberance
wrote 10 months ago: You might remember that Thoreau concludes Walden with a meditation on this word: fearing that his ex … more →
importance of being earnest
wrote 10 months ago: After class Monday, after our initial discussion of John Muir and his passionate yet passive descrip … more →
Leopold: loving the land (alliteration intended)
wrote 10 months ago: from the Leopold Archive at Univ. of Wisconsin I assume many of you from environmental studies and … more →
Thoreau's environmental (re)vision
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wrote 10 months ago: I want to highlight the argument from Buell’s essay “Thoreau and the Natural Environment … more →
Metonymy vs. Metaphor
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wrote 11 months ago: Some thoughts for the discussion and focus on the “parlaver” passage in “House-War … more →
sustainability and irony
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wrote 11 months ago: After our good discussion and sauntering today (Friday) through the first three chapters of Walden, … more →
Thoreau and Solitude
wrote 11 months ago: Just found in my e-mail inbox a link for a recent article titled The End of Solitude. A critique of … more →
Tooley on Laws of Nature and Counterfactual Support
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wrote 11 months ago: So I was looking over Dan’s reconstruction of Tooley’s argument below, and I’m sti … more →
Biodegradable Thoreau?
wrote 11 months ago: I began to think of this, a biodegradable Thoreau, when reading the second half of “Walking. … more →
