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The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture

The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture

Weik Von Mossner, Alexa
Mayer, Sylvia

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Series: American Studies - A Monograph, Book 247

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 3825363341
ISBN13: 9783825363345
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter Gmbh Heidelberg
Published: Jul 1 2014
Pages: 227
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.51
Language: English
Since the 1980s, risk has been one of the most productively employed categories of analysis in the social sciences. Risk theory and risk research in these disciplines have shown that pervasive risk awareness has increasingly reconfigured societies, politics, and cultures in our period of late modernity. The essays assembled in this volume extend risk research in the humanities to literary and cultural studies and analyze a wide range of literary and audiovisual texts that imagine human encounters with environmental risk in North America. They are grouped into three sections. The first section focuses on representations of the risk of global climate change in several climate change novels; the second section concentrates on the representation of the nuclear risk in non-fictional and fictional texts as well as in film; the third section draws particular attention to the relevance of genre in the representation of a variety of environmental risks, genres ranging from poetry to posthuman fiction to Hollywood disaster movies and video games.

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