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1. What different views of how to go about preserving and (non-)representing nature are presented in Simon Schama's landscape and memory.
2. Describe your memory of a landscape in the US, and how it relates to what Simon Schama explains.
3. Pick a passage from John Muir's journal and analyze/ discuss it.
Please post on the comment box questions or impressions / comments on the texts selected from Scott Edward Anderson, or on other facets of the life and work of an "ecopoet", descendant from Portuguese immigrants (see more here https://portuguese-american-journal.com/the-journey-scott-edward-anderson-at-home-away-from-home-interview/) and an environmental activist (here is his blog https://www.thegreenskeptic.com) who also collaborated with the NGO The Nature Conservancy(https://www.nature.org/en-us/).
1. ‘Mountain womanhood’, nature and the expansion of the domestic realm: what are some of the ways in which domesticity is 'expanded' in the chapter and how can landscape, nonhuman entities or local geography account for that 'expansion'?
2. Nonhuman agency and the narrative inclusion of nonhuman others: what are some of the techniques the author uses to include nonhuman others in the narrative and why do you think it is important, the different ways in which nonhuman beings are 'captured' in texts?
3. A textual woman-animal interconnection: why would Milly identify herself with King Devil?
1. Do some research on D. Walcott and try to account for the different perspectives of the ocean (and sea-crossings) in Walcott's "...
