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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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Heidelberg [Germany] :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2014.
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| Colección: | American studies (Munich, Germany)
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| 245 | 0 | 4 | |a The anticipation of catastrophe : |b environmental risk in North American literature and culture / |c Sylvia Mayer, Alexa Weik von Mossner, editors. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Heidelberg [Germany] : |b Universitätsverlag Winter, |c 2014. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2014 | |
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| 490 | 1 | |a American Studies : a Monograph Series ; |v Volume 247 | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2014). | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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 | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a American literature |y 20th century |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Catastrophical, The, in literature |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Ecology in literature |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Littérature américaine |y 20e siècle |x Histoire et critique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Catastrophe (Philosophie) dans la littérature |x Histoire et critique. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Catastrophical, The, in literature |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Ecology in literature |2 fast | |
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| 655 | 7 | |a Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2 fast | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Mayer, Sylvia, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Weik von Mossner, Alexa, |e editor. | |
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