Climate Change Fictions - Representations of Global Warming in American Literature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
Release date:	November 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Antonia Mehnert
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	254
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-40336-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming Promotions
LSN:	3-319-40336-2
Barcode:	9783319403366

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