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Jeff Nichols's Take Shelter (2011) : Psychic Cli-Fi [PDF]

, 2019
This essay gives an overview of the central themes and formal features of Jeff Nichols’s cli-fi film Take Shelter (2011). It also provides insight into the film’s reception and contribution to public debate, as well as offering some teaching ...
Craps, Stef
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Cli-fi Young Adult et imaginaire urbain : (re)configurations génériques

ReS Futurae, 2023
Young Adult Cli‑Fi benefits from young readers appetite for science fiction and dystopia and the attention they give to environment, climate crisis and ecology.
Natacha Levet
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Souvenirs rétrospectifs de l’Anthropocène : la ville dans la cli‑fi italienne

ReS Futurae, 2023
By bringing the "unthinkable" into our daily lives, global climate change blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction. Since the beginning of the century, the urgency of environmental awareness has marked a turning point in the Western philosophical
Lucia Della Fontana
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Climate Change: An Apocalypse for Urban Space? An Ecocritical Reading of “Venice Drowned” and “The Tamarisk Hunter” [PDF]

Folklor/Edebiyat, 2020
As encapsulated by eco-conscious author Margaret Atwood, climate change has an unprecedented effect on human life. Throughout history human beings have adapted to numerous climatic changes by complying with the available sources of food, housing ...
Özlem Akyol
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Quelle(s) singularité(s) des imaginaires urbains de la fiction climatique au cinéma ?

ReS Futurae, 2023
The article proposes to question the specificity of the place of urban imaginaries in cli‑fi films. Are these imaginaries radically different from the most common representations of urban spaces in science fiction narratives?
Pierre‑Jacques Olagnier
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‘MI I PL ET RIUM’: navigating a post-apocalyptic world in Karen Russell’s “The Gondoliers”

Iperstoria, 2022
Far from being speculative fiction à la Atwood or just another cli-fi piece, Karen Russell’s short story “The Gondoliers” is a genre b(l)ending text, a ‘Southern Gothic 2.0.’ Rife with intertextual references, it entwines cli-fi with the “freakishly ...
Eva Sabine Zehelein
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What on Earth Can Atlantis Teach Us?

Exchanges, 2021
This article presents and contextualises my recently completed cli-fi novel, Chameleon, which is set during the fall of Atlantis and presents a scenario of extreme climate change some 12,000 years ago.
Sarah Holding
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The impact of the climate emergency on 21st century fiction [PDF]

, 2023
This research supports a new movement in contemporary literature: cli-fi. The term has been attributed to environmental dystopias as far back as the nineteen-sixties.
Gillen, Gerard Hugh
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Delta City Blues: Representing Resiliency in an Urban Estuary

Iperstoria, 2022
How the climate crisis gets represented, who gets to speak, and how their speech is rendered—these are all key questions in the conflictual process that is urban adaptation to the climate crisis.
Ashley Dawson
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Climate Fiction in English [PDF]

, 2017
An introductory survey of climate fiction (a.k.a. "cli-fi") in English.
Caren Irr
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