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Charged Readings and Momentous Expectations: The Curious Case of Climate Change Fiction

open access: yesC21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings
This article traces the inception, reception, and study of climate change fiction to show how profoundly awareness of anthropogenic climate crisis, and of the severity and scale of the collective human impact on the planet, have changed ways of reading ...
Hanne Bolze
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Strategies of Cognitive Estrangement in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140

open access: yesPrague Journal of English Studies, 2021
This paper seeks to analyse the strategies of cognitive estrangement employed by the science fiction writer and literary scholar Kim Stanley Robinson in his New York 2140 (2017).
Klata Michał
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Les catastrophes futures ou les futurs de la catastrophe : les désastres à venir dans Jouer le Paradis et Let Them Eat Money

open access: yesReS Futurae, 2022
The two plays Play the Paradise and Let Them Eat Money are fictions focussing on the coming climate catastrophe. Both are structured along clear narratives : they are anchored in the present et anticipate future disasters on a social and individual level.
Eliane Beaufils
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Enhancing Low‐Temperature Performance of Sodium‐Ion Batteries via Anion‐Solvent Interactions

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
DOL is introduced into electrolytes as a co‐solvent, increasing slat solubility, ion conductivity, and the de‐solvent process, and forming an anion‐rich solvent shell due to its high interaction with anion. With the above virtues, the batteries using this electrolyte exhibit excellent cycling stability at low temperatures. Abstract Sodium‐ion batteries
Cheng Zheng   +7 more
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A Dissonant Mind in a Dissonant Body: Allegories of Climate Change Denial in McEwanʼs Novel Solar (2010)

open access: yesÉtudes Britanniques Contemporaines, 2021
Solar, Ian McEwan’s first novel about climate change, employs a comic tone that departs from most climate fictions’ apocalyptic, dystopian and elegiac inspirations.
Marion Moussier
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A Year Without a Winter Edited by Dehlia Hannah [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Book Review of editor Dehliah Hannah\u27s A Year Without a ...
Scott, Conrad
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Copper‐based Materials for Photo and Electrocatalytic Process: Advancing Renewable Energy and Environmental Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Cu‐based catalysts as a cornerstone in advancing sustainable energy technologies are fully reviewed in this manuscript, highlighting their potential in photo‐ and electrocatalysis. It includes metallic copper, copper oxides, copper sulfides, copper halide perovskites, copper‐based metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), and covalent organic frameworks (COFs),
Jéssica C. de Almeida   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Imagining Action in/Against the Anthropocene: Narrative Impasse and the Necessity of Alternatives to Effect Resistance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The Anthropocene has emerged as the dominant conception of the contemporary moment, centering the human individual as both responsible for and bearing the responsibility to counteract its numerous interrelated socioeconomic, political, and environmental ...
Kroon, Ariel
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Climate fiction: a posthumanist survey

open access: yes, 2022
Discussions of climate fiction (or “cli-fi”) frequently revolve around the thematic dimension of the genre or its possible effects on readers. In this article, the NARMESH team adopts a different approach focusing instead on the formal affordances of fiction vis-à-vis the climate crisis.
Caracciolo, Marco   +4 more
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Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty

open access: yes, 2022
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Ghent. This book argues that storytelling is an important resource in coming to terms with the loss of the feeling of living a grounded existence where the future remains relatively ...
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