Nature in Narrative and the environment

Please REFER TO THE PROPOSAL as the basis for writing this research paper on Nature in Narrative and the environment.

This paper should be written in a humanities perspective while touching on environmental issues.

The proposal includes the thesis, arguments, and the sources.

In addition to the sources in the bibliography of the proposal, please include the following sources:

1. Cronon, William. 1995. “The trouble with wilderness; or, getting back to the wrong nature,” in Uncommon ground: Toward reinventing nature. New York: Norton, 69-90.

2. Cronon, William. 1992. “A place for stories: Nature, history, and narrative”, Journal of American history March: 1347-76.

The proposal also includes detailed feedback from my professor who will be marking the research paper so please pay close attention to the comments.

The proposal included revisions that are highlighted in red so please ensure that the research paper does not reflect the errors but rather the changes the professor highlighted.

The paper must be in MLA format.

Lastly, you may refer to the course description below as a way to understand the themes of the course when writing the paper. Such themes need to be addressed and tied into your responses.

This course explores narratives of nature in a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts. In the course, we examine how figures and understandings of nature are developed in and through literary forms—from novels and short stories to essays and nature writing. A couple of the texts in the course are scientific works—works written to be accessible to a non-scientific audience—that are read for their use of literary forms, such as metaphors and rhetorical techniques, to enrich their narratives, to ease the comprehension of scientific concepts, and to persuade readers of the theories put forward. Students are encouraged to read all the texts in the course as narratives, as stories or points of view of the natural world or human nature, even the nonfiction works. In the works nature also acts as one of the characters in the text. Most of the texts in the course self-consciously play with narrative, several presenting alternative versions of the story being told from contrasting viewpoints. This emphasis on the narrativity or literary forms of texts encourages us to reflect on the constructed character of all our narratives of nature, whether fiction or nonfiction. But the course also asks how narratives can provide true accounts of our world, and examines how the place of nature in the narratives shapes their truth value.