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The anticipation of catastrophe

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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 sectio

כותר The anticipation of catastrophe : environmental risk in North American literature and culture / Sylvia Mayer, Alexa Weik von Mossner, editors.
מוציא לאור Heidelberg, [Germany] : Universitätsverlag Winter
שנה 2014
הערות Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
English
הערת תוכן ותקציר Contents
SYLVIA MAYER, ALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture / Introduction
I Fictionalizing Global Climate Change
SYLVIA MAYER Explorations of the Controversially Real: Risk, the Climate Change Novel, and the Narrative of Anticipation
AXEL GOODBODY Risk, Denial and Narrative Form in Climate Change Fiction: Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior and Ilija Trojanow's Melting Ice
ANTONIA MEHNERT Things We Didn't See Coming - Riskscapes in Climate ChangeFiction
II Representations of Nuclear Risk
HOLGER KERSTEN "These Rays May Be Helpful or Harmful": The Depiction of Radium in Early 20th Century American NewspapersALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER The Stuff of Fear: Emotion, Ethics, and the Materiality of Nuclear Risk in Silkwood and The China Syndrome
ANNA THIEMANN Nuclear Risk, Domestic Responsibility, and the Uses of Comedy: Elizabeth Stuckey-French's The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady
III Environmental Risks Across Media
CHRISTINE GERHARDT Beyond Climate Refugees: Nature, Risk and Migration in American Poetry
KARIN HÖPKER A Sense of an Ending - Risk, Catastrophe and Precarious Humanity in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and CrakeNICOLE MARUO-SCHRÖDER "It's theoretically possible": Disaster and Risk in Contemporary American Film
COLIN MILBURN Green Gaming: Video Games and Environmental Risk
Index
List of Contributors
סדרה American Studies : a Monograph Series
Volume 247
היקף החומר 1 online resource (228 p.)
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מספר מערכת 997012410640205171
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