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Rachel Carson: Silent Spring

Rachel Carson: Silent Spring. The fountainhead of the modern environmental movement.

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Rachel Carson: Silent Spring

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  1. Rachel Carson: Silent Spring The fountainhead of the modern environmental movement

  2. "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

  3. A Fable for Tomorrow • 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).

  4. Silent Spring: Key Literary Foci • 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

  5. 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”

  6. For Thursday • 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_carson/. You can also read the article that accompanies the slideshow: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/7005

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