1. R ACHEL C ARSON : S ILENT S PRING The fountainhead of the modern environmental movement

7. "The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science." - Rachel Carson, National Book Award Speech, 1963

8. A F ABLE FOR T OMORROW Fable (a literary genre): short, succinct fictional story usually including animals/plants/natural forces that are anthropomorphized and almost always ending in a moral lesson (the moral of the story).

9. S ILENT S PRING : K EY L ITERARY F OCI Literary science / scientific literature To what ends does it use pastoral imagery? What about its use ecological metaphors like web, interconnection, etc.? Drawing from various genres: fable, jeremiad, anecdote, scientific paper, popular science Drawing from various discourses that were already potent in society at that time (e.g. war metaphors borrowed from Cold War rhetoric) Apocalyptic mood

10. Apocalyptic fears of nuclear age: See pages 6, 8 Attack of the Crab Monsters (1952): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S68QJFheZaw War rhetoric associated with cold war See page 7, “war against nature”

12. F OR T HURSDAY Comments on course blog Carson, Silent Spring, “The Other Road” Monsanto, “A Desolate Year” (on course blog under “course documents”) Sandra Steingraber, “The Fracking of Rachel Carson” (an audio slideshow – please watch entirety of slideshow; it is 9 minutes): http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio- video/item/audio_slide_show_the_fracking_of_rachel_carso n/.http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio- video/item/audio_slide_show_the_fracking_of_rachel_carso n/ You can also read the article that accompanies the slideshow: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/70 05 http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/70 05