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2020
Abstract Climate is an important part of fictional scene setting, whether it be geographical—is the scene in the desert or in the tropics?—or seasonal—is it winter or is it summer? And this is perhaps especially true of Australian literature, where the majority of writers are still descendants of Anglo-Celtic settlers, living in more ...
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Abstract Climate is an important part of fictional scene setting, whether it be geographical—is the scene in the desert or in the tropics?—or seasonal—is it winter or is it summer? And this is perhaps especially true of Australian literature, where the majority of writers are still descendants of Anglo-Celtic settlers, living in more ...
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The Classical Dystopia in Climate Fiction
2020The chapter opens with a discussion of the distinction between ‘classical’ and ‘critical’ dystopias, as developed by Tom Moylan, Raffaella Baccolini and Lyman Tower Sargent. It then proceeds to an account of classical cli-fi dystopias that exhibit, by turn, each of five ideal-typical responses to climate change: denial, mitigation, negative adaptation,
Andrew Milner, J.R. Burgmann
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The Critical Dystopia in Climate Fiction
2020This chapter develops an account of critical cli-fi dystopias that exhibit, by turn, each of five ideal-typical responses to climate change: denial, mitigation, negative adaptation, positive adaptation, and Gaian deep ecological anti-humanism. The texts analysed include Ian McEwan’s Solar, Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312 and Aurora, Cormac McCarthy’s The ...
Andrew Milner, J.R. Burgmann
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From Climate Model to Climate Fiction
This essay asks how climate fiction relates to climate models, focusing on Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future and referencing the theoretical work of Walter Benjamin and Fredric Jameson. It is argued that Robinson’s novel exerts an ‘operative function’ through the formal treatment of three themes: the feedback loop between climate ...openaire +1 more source
Negli ultimi anni, con l’aggravarsi della crisi climatica, si è diffusa sempre di più la climate fiction, ovvero la narrativa che ha per oggetto il cambiamento climatico e le sue conseguenze. Questo filone letterario ha origine in Nord America, ma si è diffuso anche in Europa e in Italia, innestandosi sulla tradizione secolare del racconto apocalittico.
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Climate Change and Catastrophe Fiction
2012Climate change features in almost all of the fictional sources consulted for this book. Often it forms the context or backdrop for a post-apocalyptic eutopia or (more often) dystopia. Sometimes it is the main focus of the narrative. In this chapter, I have selected five fictional texts.
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Climate fiction and young learners’ thoughts—a dialogue between literature and education
Environmental Education Research, 2021Maria Lindgren Leavenworth +1 more
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