Ecocriticism

My first semester at TU, I took a 1063 class whose contents were all related to Nature. In the class we read many authors that were referenced in The Ecocriticism Reader, including Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Terry Tempest Williams, Thoreau, Adrienne Rich, Gary Snyder and others. I had no idea at the time, (probably because my professor didn't articulate it) that ecocriticism was a literary theory. I really enjoyed that class because we explored all the ways in which nature affects society and culture. The underlying tone of the class was that every person is obligated (much like Levinas' Other as discussed in Who is my Neighbor?) to take care of their piece of the world as long as they live on it and in some ways abuse its resources. Anyway, I highly recommend these authors to everyone...maybe for a summer reading list?