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Anglophone Literature and the Fight Against Climate Change - (Environmental Cultures) by Matthias Stephan (Hardcover)
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- Offering a methodology for identifying particularly impactful literary narratives of climate change, this open access book examines a range of Anglophone fiction authors such as Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ian McEwan, Louise Erdrich, Octavia E. Butler and Sarah Hall, as well as films such as The Day After Tomorrow and Snowpiercer.
- About the Author: Matthias Stephan is Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies and Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark
- 240 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Subjects & Themes
- Series Name: Environmental Cultures
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Providing a methodology for identifying literary narratives of climate change, this book draws on historical narrative strategies and analysis of the current popular trends to assess the effectiveness of literary narratives on global issues.
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Offering a methodology for identifying particularly impactful literary narratives of climate change, this open access book examines a range of Anglophone fiction authors such as Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ian McEwan, Louise Erdrich, Octavia E. Butler and Sarah Hall, as well as films such as The Day After Tomorrow and Snowpiercer.
Firstly, this book looks at which narratives, historically, have had an impact on social consciousness. Secondly, it considers the impact of popular and established strategies. Finally, it suggests emphasizing alternative narrative strategies, which it suggests can have a greater impact by causing people to act. This allows a more solid approach to assessing the effectiveness of literary narratives on global issues.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective
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"Matthias Stephan's book raises important questions on the impact of climate fiction. It offers a convincing argument on how specific affects and literary modes--for instance, nostalgia and the gothic--can enhance fiction's ability to reshape environmental attitudes." --Marco Caracciolo, Associate Professor of English, Ghent University, Belgium
"This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book that promises to make a timely and potentially innovative contribution to ecocriticism, genre studies, and the environmental humanities more broadly." --Harriet Stilley, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Gothic Nature journal and the European Journal of American Culture
About the Author
Matthias Stephan is Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies and Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark
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