Screen LibraryAnticipatory environmental (hi)stories from antiquity to the anthropocene /
"The volume examines forms and functions of fictional and factual anticipatory environmental (hi)stories from antiquity to the Anthropocene, offering a diachronic as well as cross-cultural perspective on how different authors and societies have imagined their respective future environments"...
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Lexington,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham, MD : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Environment and society
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| Summary: |
"The volume examines forms and functions of fictional and factual anticipatory environmental (hi)stories from antiquity to the Anthropocene, offering a diachronic as well as cross-cultural perspective on how different authors and societies have imagined their respective future environments"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781666921144 1666921149 |
| Index Number: | GE149 |
| CLC: |
X24 P467 |
| Call Number: | P467/A629 |
| Contents: | Introduction : anticipating environmental futures beyond pastoral and apocalyptic visions / Christopher Schliephake and Evi Zemanek -- Experience and expectations : Hesiod on work, justice, and environment / Astrid Möller -- Ancient geographies of health and environmental acumen : an anticipatory narrative in Galen / Caroline Petit -- The past is a foreign environment : some observations on Roman wetland drainage in ancient and modern discourse / Jasmin Hettinger -- Future imperfect in Edmund Spenser's The shepheardes calender (1579) / Diana G. Barnes -- Retrospective prophecy in contemporary Maya literature : Chim Bacab's Flower of memory / Charles M. Pigott -- Feeling like a species : the environmental future in Lucretius / Richard Hutchins -- Anticipating multispecies thinking in Plutarch's Animal treatises / Christopher Schliephake -- William Temple Hornaday's haunting vision of a wildlife apocalypse / Gregory J. Dehler -- Anticipating extinction : mammoths, elephants, and the late-19th-century ivory trade / Rebecca J.H. Woods -- Narrating civilizational collapse in the anthropocene : Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's The collapse of western civilization : a view from the future (2014) / Lena Pfeifer -- Sensing noise, sensing space : environmental perceptions and the impact on future urban space in Germany and the United Kingdom (1900-1930) / Heiner Stahl -- The arcologies of Paolo Soleri : unbuilt futures from the past / Serge Leopold Middendorf -- Utopia's user interface : geoengineering, smart cities, and glass life in Niklas Maak's novel Technophoria / Helga G. Braunbeck -- Solastalgia, future memory, and polluted landscapes in Lucan's Bellum civile / Darrel Janzen -- Nuclear winter : science, fiction, and temporal violence / James Dunk -- 'Nature in order' or human agency? : visions of the future in the long nineteenth century newspaper climate change discourse / Falko Schnicke -- Explaining climate change and predicting its impacts : the popularizatio |