Investigating the relationship between literature and climate, this Companion offers a genealogy of climate representations in literature while showing how literature can help us make sense of climate change. It argues that any discussion of literature and climate cannot help but be shaped by our current - and inescapable - vantage point from an era of climate change, and uncovers a longer literary history of climate that might inform our contemporary climate crisis. Essays explore the conceptualisation of climate in a range of literary and creative modes; they represent a diversity of cultural and historical perspectives, and a wide spectrum of voices and views across the categories of race, gender, and class. Key issues in climate criticism and literary studies are introduced and explained, while new and emerging concepts are discussed and debated in a final section that puts expert analyses in conversation with each other.
| ISBN: | 9781009060813 |
| Publication date: | 7th April 2022 |
| Author: | Adeline JohnsPutra, Kelly Sultzbach |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 362 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Companions |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Weather and climate: general interest Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world Environmentalist thought and ideology |
Investigating the relationship between literature and climate, this Companion offers a genealogy of climate representations in literature while showing how literature can help us make sense of climate change. It argues that any discussion of literature and climate cannot help but be shaped by our current - and inescapable - vantage point from an era of climate change, and uncovers a longer literary history of climate that might inform our contemporary climate crisis. Essays explore the conceptualisation of climate in a range of literary and creative modes; they represent a diversity of cultural and historical perspectives, and a wide spectrum of voices and views across the categories of race, gender, and class. Key issues in climate criticism and literary studies are introduced and explained, while new and emerging concepts are discussed and debated in a final section that puts expert analyses in conversation with each other.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate features in the following genres: Literary studies: general, Weather and climate: general interest, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Environmentalist thought and ideology
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate is available in Paperback
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate was written by Adeline JohnsPutra, Kelly Sultzbach and published by Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate has 362 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Companions series
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