LT904-7-SP-CO:
The New Nature Writing
2024/25
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Spring
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Monday 13 January 2025
Friday 21 March 2025
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24 March 2022
Requisites for this module
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MA W8F912 Wild Writing: Literature, Landscape and the Environment
`In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the earth` (Rachel Carson)
The New Nature Writing approaches the movement in writing about the natural world that has emerged in Britain over the last decade with the work of authors such as Helen Macdonald, Kathleen Jamie and Robert Macfarlane. Invited writers will add their voices on the construction of nature writing today; field trips will provide time in locales being written about.
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Anticipated teaching delivery: Weekly two-hour seminar.
- Jamie, Kathleen. (2005) Findings, London: Sort Of.
- Deakin, Roger; Hastie, Alison; Blacker, Terence. (c2008) Notes from Walnut Tree Farm, London: Hamish Hamilton.
- Ronald Blythe. (2011) At the yeoman's house, London: Enitharmon Press.
- Deakin, Roger. (2007) Wildwood: a journey through trees, London: Hamish Hamilton.
- Mabey, Richard. (2008) Beechcombings: the narratives of trees, London: Vintage.
- Baker, J. A. (1967) The Peregrine, London: Collins. vol. New York Review Books classics
- Mabey, Richard. (2008) Nature cure, London: Vintage Books.
- Joe Moran. (2014) 'A Cultural History of the New Nature Writing', in Literature & History. vol. 23 (1) , pp.49-63
- Macdonald, Helen. (2014) H is for hawk, London: Jonathan Cape.
- Richard Long Crossing Stones, http://www.richardlong.org/Textworks/2011textworks/27.html
- Deakin, Roger. (2000) Waterlog: a swimmer's journey through Britain, London: Vintage.
- Oswald, Alice. (2002) Dart, London: Faber and Faber.
- Pretty, Jules N. (2011) This luminous coast, Woodbridge: Full Circle.
- Macfarlane, Robert. (2013) The old ways: a journey on foot, London: Penguin.
The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course. The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students. Further reading can be obtained from this module's reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Essay (5,000 words) |
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100% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr James Canton, email: jcanto@essex.ac.uk.
Dr James Canton
LiFTS Taught Team - email liftstt@essex.ac.uk.
Telephone 01206 872626
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Dr Tim Atkins
University of Roehampton
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
* Please note: due to differing publication schedules, items marked with an asterisk (*) base their information upon the previous academic year.
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