Climate change fictions[electronic r...
Mehnert, Antonia.

 

  • Climate change fictions[electronic resource] :representations of global warming in American literature /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 813.60936
    書名/作者: Climate change fictions : representations of global warming in American literature // by Antonia Mehnert.
    作者: Mehnert, Antonia.
    出版者: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, 2016.
    面頁冊數: x, 254 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: American literature - History and criticism. - 21st century
    標題: Climatic changes in literature.
    標題: Literature.
    標題: Contemporary Literature.
    標題: Comparative Literature.
    標題: Twentieth-Century Literature.
    ISBN: 9783319403373
    ISBN: 9783319403366
    內容註: Introduction: Imagining Climate Change Futures -- Chapter 1: Climate Change Fictions in Context: Socio-Politics, Environmental Discourse and Literature -- Chapter 2: Scaling Climate Change--The Transformation of Place in Climate Change Fiction -- Chapter 3: Reimagining Time in Climate Change Fiction -- Chapter 4: Manufactured Uncertainty: Climate Risks in an Age of "Heightened Security" -- Chapter 5: Climate Cultures in Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital Trilogy -- Chapter 6: Representing the Underrepresented: Climate Justice and Future Responsibilities in Climate Change Fiction -- Conclusion: Climate Change Fiction and the Introduction of New Genres in Environmental Crisis Discourse -- Notes -- Bibliography.
    摘要、提要註: This book highlights the importance of the cultural sphere, and in particular literature, in response and discussion with the unprecedented phenomenon known as climate change. Antonia Mehnert turns to a set of contemporary American works of fiction, reading them as a unique response to the challenges of representing climate change. She draws on "climate change fiction"-- texts dealing explicitly with anthropogenic climate change--and explores how these works convey climate change, deal with its challenging characteristics, and with what narrative techniques they ultimately participate in its communication. Indeed, a number of challenging traits make climate change a difficult issue to engage with including its slow and long temporal dimension, global scale, scientific controversy, and its disconnect between cause and effect. Considering such complexity and uncertainty at the source of climate change fictions, this book moves beyond a solely ecocritical analysis and shows how these climate change fictions constitute an insightful cultural repertoire valuable for discussion in the environmental humanities in general.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40337-3
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