Following are the required texts for my upper-level, undergraduate seminar entitled “Religion, Sport, and Water” Contemplation and Conservation in over 500 years of Fishing Literature.” These books will be supplemented by a few more short primary texts, and by some secondary literature as well. I should have the syllabus completed shortly, and I’ll be sure to share it. I have some wonderful guest speakers lined up as well — from angling artist Michael Simon to flytier Brad Kern.
Swearer, Donald. Ecology and the Environment: Perspectives from the Humanities (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009).
Herd, Andrew. The Fly (Ellesmere,UK: Medlar Press, 2003).
Browning, Mark, Haunted by Waters: Fly Fishing in North American Literature (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998).
Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton, The Compleat Angler, Oxford World’s Classics. (New York: Oxford University Press, USA: World’s Classics, 2009).
Luce, A.A., Fishing and Thinking (Shrewsbury, UK: Swan Hill Press, 2002).
Maclean, Norman, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
Duncan, David James, The River Why, Twentieth-Anniversary Edition (Sierra Club Books, 2002).
The Literary Fly Fisher 
January 7, 2013 at 6:03 PM |
No “Fly Fishing for Dummies?”
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January 7, 2013 at 6:28 PM |
No Patrick McManus? =)232
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January 7, 2013 at 8:50 PM |
No, I’ll just have you guys guest lecture. Seriously, though, visitors are always welcome. Bill, you’ll have to meet Michael Simon for sure.
I did use the Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide as an optional text in the previous incarnation of this class. I supposed I should have made something available this time too.
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January 7, 2013 at 9:05 PM |
What no bloggers?
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January 7, 2013 at 9:56 PM |
Actually, I absolutely should provide a list of relevant blogs and other websites.
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