Mesa Verde Reading Group Schedule

2005-2006

Wednesday, October 12, 1:00 pm

selections from:

David Crockett The Life of David Crockett, from Tennessee

Thomas Jefferson Notes from the State of Virginia

Wednesday, November 9, 2:00 pm

selections from:

Worster The Wealth of Nations

Wednesday, January 11, 2:00 pm

Jim Hatley "The Uncanny Goodness of Being Edible to Bears"

Wednesday, February 8, 2:00 pm

VonUexkull "A Stroll Through the World of Animals and Men"

Wednesday, January 25, 2:00 pm, 448 PLC

Buell, The Environmental Imagination

** Chapter 2 ("New World Dreams and Environmental Actualities"), Chap. 3  ("Representing the Environment"), Chap. 5 ("The Aesthetics of Relinquishment")
and Chap. 9 ("Environmental Apocalypticism")**

Optional: Everything else.  Especially recommended, though, are the
Introduction, chapters 7 ("Nature's Face, Mind's Eye: Realizing the
Seasons"), 10 ("The Thoreauvian Pilgrimage" [a free-standing classic]),
and the Appendix: "Nature's Genres."

Wednesday, February 8, 2:00 pm, 448 PLC

Buell, Writing for an Endangered World

Chapter 1, Toxic Discourse
Chapter 2, The Place of Place
Chapter 5, Modernization and the Claims of the Natural World
Chapter 8, Watershed Aesthetics

Future Reading Group Dates

Wednesday, February 22, 2:00 pm, 448 PLC

Wednesday, March 1, 2:00 pm, 448 PLC

Wednesday, March 15, 2:00 pm, 448 PLC