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Investigating the relationship between literature and climate, this Companion offers a genealogy of climate representations in literature while showing how literature can help us make sense of climate change. It argues that any discussion of literature and climate cannot help but be shaped by our cu...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Companions. Literature
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Investigating the relationship between literature and climate, this Companion offers a genealogy of climate representations in literature while showing how literature can help us make sense of climate change. It argues that any discussion of literature and climate cannot help but be shaped by our current -- and inescapable -- vantage point from an era of climate change, and uncovers a longer literary history of climate that might inform our contemporary climate crisis. Essays explore the conceptualisation of climate in a range of literary and creative modes; they represent a diversity of cultural and historical perspectives, and a wide spectrum of voices and views across the categories of race, gender, and class. Key issues in climate criticism and literary studies are introduced and explained, while new and emerging concepts are discussed and debated in a final section that puts expert analyses in conversation with each other. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781316512166 1316512169 9781009060813 1009060813 |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | P467-05 |
| Call Number: | P467-05/C178 |
| Contents: | Introduction / Adeline Johns-Putra and Kelly Sultzbach -- Seasonal processions / Sarah Dimick -- Literal and literary atmospheres / Thomas H. Ford -- Weathers of body and world : reading difference in literary atmospheres before climate change / Jennifer Mae Hamilton -- Scales : climate versus embodiment / Derek Woods -- Capitalist cultures : the taste of oil / Elizabeth Mazzolini -- Animals and extinction / Fiona Probyn-Rapsey -- Climate justice and literatures of the Global South / Chitra Sankaran -- Climate theatre : enacting possible futures / Theresa J. May -- Digital cli-fi : human stories of climate in online and social media / John Parham -- Climate on screen : from doom and disaster to ecotopian visions / Alexa Weik von Mossner -- Ice-sheet collapse and the consensus apocalypse in the science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson / Gerry Canavan -- Solarpunk / Gregory Lynall -- Indigenous and black feminist knowledge-production, speculative science stories, and climate change literature / Shelley Streeby -- More-than-human collectives in Richard Powers' The overstory and Vandana Singh's 'Entanglement' / Kelly Sultzbach -- Meteorology of form / Thomas Bristow -- Perspective-taking, empathy, and virtuality in Jorie Graham's Fast / Isabel Galleymore -- Climate change and indigenous sovereignty in Pacific Islanders' writing / Hsinya Huang -- Literary responses to indigenous climate justice and the Canadian settler-state / Jenny Kerber and Cheryl Lousley -- Transtextual realism for the climatological collective / Adeline Johns-Putra -- Critical climate irrealism / Sam Solnick. |