The anticipation of catastrophe : environmental risk in North American literature and culture /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mayer, Sylvia (Editor ), Weik von Mossner, Alexa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Heidelberg [Germany] : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014.
Colección:American studies (Munich, Germany)
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Catastrophical, The, in literature > History and criticism.
Ecology in literature > History and criticism.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Catastrophe (Philosophie) dans la littérature > Histoire et critique.
American literature
Catastrophical, The, in literature
Ecology in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (228 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
ISBN:3825374459
9783825374457

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