The anticipation of catastrophe :: environmental risk in North American literature and culture /
Since the 1980s, "risk" has been one of the most productively employed categories of analysis in the social sciences. Risk theory and risk research in these disciplines have shown that pervasive risk awareness has increasingly reconfigured societies, politics, and cultures in our period of...
Gespeichert in:
| Weitere Verfasser: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
| Veröffentlicht: |
Heidelberg [Germany] :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2014.
|
| Schriftenreihe: | American studies (Munich, Germany)
|
| Schlagworte: | |
| Online-Zugang: | Volltext |
| Zusammenfassung: | Since the 1980s, "risk" has been one of the most productively employed categories of analysis in the social sciences. Risk theory and risk research in these disciplines have shown that pervasive risk awareness has increasingly reconfigured societies, politics, and cultures in our period of late modernity. The essays assembled in this volume extend risk research in the humanities to literary and cultural studies and analyze a wide range of literary and audiovisual texts that imagine human encounters with environmental risk in North America. They are grouped into three sections. The first sectio. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (228 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| ISBN: | 3825374459 9783825374457 |
Internformat
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a2200000Mi 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | ZDB-4-EBA-ocn893679019 | ||
| 003 | OCoLC | ||
| 005 | 20241004212047.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr cn||||||||| | ||
| 008 | 141013t20142014gw ob 001 0 eng d | ||
| 040 | |a E7B |b eng |e rda |e pn |c E7B |d OCLCO |d EBLCP |d YDXCP |d OCLCQ |d OCLCF |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d IDEBK |d OCLCQ |d MERUC |d OCLCQ |d N$T |d VLY |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCL | ||
| 019 | |a 900091860 | ||
| 020 | |a 3825374459 |q (e-book) | ||
| 020 | |a 9783825374457 |q (electronic bk.) | ||
| 020 | |z 9783825363345 | ||
| 020 | |z 3825363341 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)893679019 |z (OCoLC)900091860 | ||
| 050 | 4 | |a PS221 |b .A585 2014eb | |
| 082 | 7 | |a 810.9005 |2 23 | |
| 049 | |a MAIN | ||
| 245 | 0 | 4 | |a The anticipation of catastrophe : |b environmental risk in North American literature and culture / |c Sylvia Mayer, Alexa Weik von Mossner, editors. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Heidelberg [Germany] : |b Universitätsverlag Winter, |c 2014. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2014 | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (228 pages) | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a American Studies : a Monograph Series ; |v Volume 247 | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2014). | |
| 505 | 0 | |a SYLVIA MAYER, ALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture / Introduction; I Fictionalizing Global Climate Change; SYLVIA MAYER Explorations of the Controversially Real: Risk, the Climate Change Novel, and the Narrative of Anticipation; AXEL GOODBODY Risk, Denial and Narrative Form in Climate Change Fiction: Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior and Ilija Trojanow's Melting Ice; ANTONIA MEHNERT Things We Didn't See Coming -- Riskscapes in Climate ChangeFiction; II Representations of Nuclear Risk | |
| 505 | 8 | |a HOLGER KERSTEN "These Rays May Be Helpful or Harmful": The Depiction of Radium in Early 20th Century American NewspapersALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER The Stuff of Fear: Emotion, Ethics, and the Materiality of Nuclear Risk in Silkwood and The China Syndrome; ANNA THIEMANN Nuclear Risk, Domestic Responsibility, and the Uses of Comedy: Elizabeth Stuckey-French's The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady; III Environmental Risks Across Media; CHRISTINE GERHARDT Beyond Climate Refugees: Nature, Risk and Migration in American Poetry | |
| 505 | 8 | |a KARIN HÖPKER A Sense of an Ending -- Risk, Catastrophe and Precarious Humanity in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and CrakeNICOLE MARUO-SCHRÖDER "It's theoretically possible": Disaster and Risk in Contemporary American Film; COLIN MILBURN Green Gaming: Video Games and Environmental Risk; Index; List of Contributors | |
| 520 | |a Since the 1980s, "risk" has been one of the most productively employed categories of analysis in the social sciences. Risk theory and risk research in these disciplines have shown that pervasive risk awareness has increasingly reconfigured societies, politics, and cultures in our period of late modernity. The essays assembled in this volume extend risk research in the humanities to literary and cultural studies and analyze a wide range of literary and audiovisual texts that imagine human encounters with environmental risk in North America. They are grouped into three sections. The first sectio. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a American literature |y 20th century |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Catastrophical, The, in literature |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Ecology in literature |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Littérature américaine |y 20e siècle |x Histoire et critique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Catastrophe (Philosophie) dans la littérature |x Histoire et critique. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a American literature |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Catastrophical, The, in literature |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Ecology in literature |2 fast | |
| 648 | 7 | |a 1900-1999 |2 fast | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2 fast | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Mayer, Sylvia, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Weik von Mossner, Alexa, |e editor. | |
| 758 | |i has work: |a The anticipation of catastrophe (Text) |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFwq46Chhb4gkGxr3pmhMd |4 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork | ||
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |t Anticipation of catastrophe : environmental risk in North American literature and culture. |d Heidelberg, [Germany] : Universitätsverlag Winter, ©2014 |h 227 pages |k American studies (Munich, Germany) ; Volume 247 |z 9783825363345 |
| 830 | 0 | |a American studies (Munich, Germany) |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83734799 | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |l FWS01 |p ZDB-4-EBA |q FWS_PDA_EBA |u https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2041115 |3 Volltext |
| 938 | |a EBL - Ebook Library |b EBLB |n EBL1793222 | ||
| 938 | |a ebrary |b EBRY |n ebr10943511 | ||
| 938 | |a ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection |b IDEB |n cis29839474 | ||
| 938 | |a YBP Library Services |b YANK |n 12155104 | ||
| 938 | |a EBSCOhost |b EBSC |n 2041115 | ||
| 994 | |a 92 |b GEBAY | ||
| 912 | |a ZDB-4-EBA | ||
| 049 | |a DE-863 | ||
Datensatz im Suchindex
| DE-BY-FWS_katkey | ZDB-4-EBA-ocn893679019 |
|---|---|
| _version_ | 1816882291322912768 |
| adam_text | |
| any_adam_object | |
| author2 | Mayer, Sylvia Weik von Mossner, Alexa |
| author2_role | edt edt |
| author2_variant | s m sm v m a w vma vmaw |
| author_facet | Mayer, Sylvia Weik von Mossner, Alexa |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | localFWS |
| callnumber-first | P - Language and Literature |
| callnumber-label | PS221 |
| callnumber-raw | PS221 .A585 2014eb |
| callnumber-search | PS221 .A585 2014eb |
| callnumber-sort | PS 3221 A585 42014EB |
| callnumber-subject | PS - American Literature |
| collection | ZDB-4-EBA |
| contents | SYLVIA MAYER, ALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture / Introduction; I Fictionalizing Global Climate Change; SYLVIA MAYER Explorations of the Controversially Real: Risk, the Climate Change Novel, and the Narrative of Anticipation; AXEL GOODBODY Risk, Denial and Narrative Form in Climate Change Fiction: Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior and Ilija Trojanow's Melting Ice; ANTONIA MEHNERT Things We Didn't See Coming -- Riskscapes in Climate ChangeFiction; II Representations of Nuclear Risk HOLGER KERSTEN "These Rays May Be Helpful or Harmful": The Depiction of Radium in Early 20th Century American NewspapersALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER The Stuff of Fear: Emotion, Ethics, and the Materiality of Nuclear Risk in Silkwood and The China Syndrome; ANNA THIEMANN Nuclear Risk, Domestic Responsibility, and the Uses of Comedy: Elizabeth Stuckey-French's The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady; III Environmental Risks Across Media; CHRISTINE GERHARDT Beyond Climate Refugees: Nature, Risk and Migration in American Poetry KARIN HÖPKER A Sense of an Ending -- Risk, Catastrophe and Precarious Humanity in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and CrakeNICOLE MARUO-SCHRÖDER "It's theoretically possible": Disaster and Risk in Contemporary American Film; COLIN MILBURN Green Gaming: Video Games and Environmental Risk; Index; List of Contributors |
| ctrlnum | (OCoLC)893679019 |
| dewey-full | 810.9005 |
| dewey-hundreds | 800 - Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric |
| dewey-ones | 810 - American literature in English |
| dewey-raw | 810.9005 |
| dewey-search | 810.9005 |
| dewey-sort | 3810.9005 |
| dewey-tens | 810 - American literature in English |
| discipline | Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| era | 1900-1999 fast |
| era_facet | 1900-1999 |
| format | Electronic eBook |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>05060cam a2200649Mi 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">ZDB-4-EBA-ocn893679019</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">OCoLC</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20241004212047.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m o d </controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr cn|||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">141013t20142014gw ob 001 0 eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">E7B</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield><subfield code="e">pn</subfield><subfield code="c">E7B</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCO</subfield><subfield code="d">EBLCP</subfield><subfield code="d">YDXCP</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCQ</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCF</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCO</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCQ</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCO</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCQ</subfield><subfield code="d">IDEBK</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCQ</subfield><subfield code="d">MERUC</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCQ</subfield><subfield code="d">N$T</subfield><subfield code="d">VLY</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCO</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCQ</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCO</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">900091860</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">3825374459</subfield><subfield code="q">(e-book)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9783825374457</subfield><subfield code="q">(electronic bk.)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="z">9783825363345</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="z">3825363341</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)893679019</subfield><subfield code="z">(OCoLC)900091860</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">PS221</subfield><subfield code="b">.A585 2014eb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">810.9005</subfield><subfield code="2">23</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">MAIN</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">The anticipation of catastrophe :</subfield><subfield code="b">environmental risk in North American literature and culture /</subfield><subfield code="c">Sylvia Mayer, Alexa Weik von Mossner, editors.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Heidelberg [Germany] :</subfield><subfield code="b">Universitätsverlag Winter,</subfield><subfield code="c">2014.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©2014</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (228 pages)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="490" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">American Studies : a Monograph Series ;</subfield><subfield code="v">Volume 247</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="504" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2014).</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">SYLVIA MAYER, ALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture / Introduction; I Fictionalizing Global Climate Change; SYLVIA MAYER Explorations of the Controversially Real: Risk, the Climate Change Novel, and the Narrative of Anticipation; AXEL GOODBODY Risk, Denial and Narrative Form in Climate Change Fiction: Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior and Ilija Trojanow's Melting Ice; ANTONIA MEHNERT Things We Didn't See Coming -- Riskscapes in Climate ChangeFiction; II Representations of Nuclear Risk</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">HOLGER KERSTEN "These Rays May Be Helpful or Harmful": The Depiction of Radium in Early 20th Century American NewspapersALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER The Stuff of Fear: Emotion, Ethics, and the Materiality of Nuclear Risk in Silkwood and The China Syndrome; ANNA THIEMANN Nuclear Risk, Domestic Responsibility, and the Uses of Comedy: Elizabeth Stuckey-French's The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady; III Environmental Risks Across Media; CHRISTINE GERHARDT Beyond Climate Refugees: Nature, Risk and Migration in American Poetry</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">KARIN HÖPKER A Sense of an Ending -- Risk, Catastrophe and Precarious Humanity in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and CrakeNICOLE MARUO-SCHRÖDER "It's theoretically possible": Disaster and Risk in Contemporary American Film; COLIN MILBURN Green Gaming: Video Games and Environmental Risk; Index; List of Contributors</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Since the 1980s, "risk" has been one of the most productively employed categories of analysis in the social sciences. Risk theory and risk research in these disciplines have shown that pervasive risk awareness has increasingly reconfigured societies, politics, and cultures in our period of late modernity. The essays assembled in this volume extend risk research in the humanities to literary and cultural studies and analyze a wide range of literary and audiovisual texts that imagine human encounters with environmental risk in North America. They are grouped into three sections. The first sectio.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">American literature</subfield><subfield code="y">20th century</subfield><subfield code="x">History and criticism.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Catastrophical, The, in literature</subfield><subfield code="x">History and criticism.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Ecology in literature</subfield><subfield code="x">History and criticism.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="6"><subfield code="a">Littérature américaine</subfield><subfield code="y">20e siècle</subfield><subfield code="x">Histoire et critique.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="6"><subfield code="a">Catastrophe (Philosophie) dans la littérature</subfield><subfield code="x">Histoire et critique.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">American literature</subfield><subfield code="2">fast</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Catastrophical, The, in literature</subfield><subfield code="2">fast</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Ecology in literature</subfield><subfield code="2">fast</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="648" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">1900-1999</subfield><subfield code="2">fast</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="655" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Criticism, interpretation, etc.</subfield><subfield code="2">fast</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="700" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mayer, Sylvia,</subfield><subfield code="e">editor.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="700" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Weik von Mossner, Alexa,</subfield><subfield code="e">editor.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="758" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="i">has work:</subfield><subfield code="a">The anticipation of catastrophe (Text)</subfield><subfield code="1">https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFwq46Chhb4gkGxr3pmhMd</subfield><subfield code="4">https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Print version:</subfield><subfield code="t">Anticipation of catastrophe : environmental risk in North American literature and culture.</subfield><subfield code="d">Heidelberg, [Germany] : Universitätsverlag Winter, ©2014</subfield><subfield code="h">227 pages</subfield><subfield code="k">American studies (Munich, Germany) ; Volume 247</subfield><subfield code="z">9783825363345</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="830" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">American studies (Munich, Germany)</subfield><subfield code="0">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83734799</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="l">FWS01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-4-EBA</subfield><subfield code="q">FWS_PDA_EBA</subfield><subfield code="u">https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2041115</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="938" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBL - Ebook Library</subfield><subfield code="b">EBLB</subfield><subfield code="n">EBL1793222</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="938" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ebrary</subfield><subfield code="b">EBRY</subfield><subfield code="n">ebr10943511</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="938" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection</subfield><subfield code="b">IDEB</subfield><subfield code="n">cis29839474</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="938" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">YBP Library Services</subfield><subfield code="b">YANK</subfield><subfield code="n">12155104</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="938" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBSCOhost</subfield><subfield code="b">EBSC</subfield><subfield code="n">2041115</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="994" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">92</subfield><subfield code="b">GEBAY</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-4-EBA</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-863</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| genre | Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast |
| genre_facet | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| id | ZDB-4-EBA-ocn893679019 |
| illustrated | Not Illustrated |
| indexdate | 2024-11-27T13:26:17Z |
| institution | BVB |
| isbn | 3825374459 9783825374457 |
| language | English |
| oclc_num | 893679019 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | MAIN DE-863 DE-BY-FWS |
| owner_facet | MAIN DE-863 DE-BY-FWS |
| physical | 1 online resource (228 pages) |
| psigel | ZDB-4-EBA |
| publishDate | 2014 |
| publishDateSearch | 2014 |
| publishDateSort | 2014 |
| publisher | Universitätsverlag Winter, |
| record_format | marc |
| series | American studies (Munich, Germany) |
| series2 | American Studies : a Monograph Series ; |
| spelling | The anticipation of catastrophe : environmental risk in North American literature and culture / Sylvia Mayer, Alexa Weik von Mossner, editors. Heidelberg [Germany] : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014. ©2014 1 online resource (228 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier American Studies : a Monograph Series ; Volume 247 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2014). SYLVIA MAYER, ALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture / Introduction; I Fictionalizing Global Climate Change; SYLVIA MAYER Explorations of the Controversially Real: Risk, the Climate Change Novel, and the Narrative of Anticipation; AXEL GOODBODY Risk, Denial and Narrative Form in Climate Change Fiction: Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior and Ilija Trojanow's Melting Ice; ANTONIA MEHNERT Things We Didn't See Coming -- Riskscapes in Climate ChangeFiction; II Representations of Nuclear Risk HOLGER KERSTEN "These Rays May Be Helpful or Harmful": The Depiction of Radium in Early 20th Century American NewspapersALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER The Stuff of Fear: Emotion, Ethics, and the Materiality of Nuclear Risk in Silkwood and The China Syndrome; ANNA THIEMANN Nuclear Risk, Domestic Responsibility, and the Uses of Comedy: Elizabeth Stuckey-French's The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady; III Environmental Risks Across Media; CHRISTINE GERHARDT Beyond Climate Refugees: Nature, Risk and Migration in American Poetry KARIN HÖPKER A Sense of an Ending -- Risk, Catastrophe and Precarious Humanity in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and CrakeNICOLE MARUO-SCHRÖDER "It's theoretically possible": Disaster and Risk in Contemporary American Film; COLIN MILBURN Green Gaming: Video Games and Environmental Risk; Index; List of Contributors Since the 1980s, "risk" has been one of the most productively employed categories of analysis in the social sciences. Risk theory and risk research in these disciplines have shown that pervasive risk awareness has increasingly reconfigured societies, politics, and cultures in our period of late modernity. The essays assembled in this volume extend risk research in the humanities to literary and cultural studies and analyze a wide range of literary and audiovisual texts that imagine human encounters with environmental risk in North America. They are grouped into three sections. The first sectio. American literature 20th century History and criticism. Catastrophical, The, in literature History and criticism. Ecology in literature History and criticism. Littérature américaine 20e siècle Histoire et critique. Catastrophe (Philosophie) dans la littérature Histoire et critique. American literature fast Catastrophical, The, in literature fast Ecology in literature fast 1900-1999 fast Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast Mayer, Sylvia, editor. Weik von Mossner, Alexa, editor. has work: The anticipation of catastrophe (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFwq46Chhb4gkGxr3pmhMd https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Anticipation of catastrophe : environmental risk in North American literature and culture. Heidelberg, [Germany] : Universitätsverlag Winter, ©2014 227 pages American studies (Munich, Germany) ; Volume 247 9783825363345 American studies (Munich, Germany) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83734799 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2041115 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | The anticipation of catastrophe : environmental risk in North American literature and culture / American studies (Munich, Germany) SYLVIA MAYER, ALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture / Introduction; I Fictionalizing Global Climate Change; SYLVIA MAYER Explorations of the Controversially Real: Risk, the Climate Change Novel, and the Narrative of Anticipation; AXEL GOODBODY Risk, Denial and Narrative Form in Climate Change Fiction: Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior and Ilija Trojanow's Melting Ice; ANTONIA MEHNERT Things We Didn't See Coming -- Riskscapes in Climate ChangeFiction; II Representations of Nuclear Risk HOLGER KERSTEN "These Rays May Be Helpful or Harmful": The Depiction of Radium in Early 20th Century American NewspapersALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER The Stuff of Fear: Emotion, Ethics, and the Materiality of Nuclear Risk in Silkwood and The China Syndrome; ANNA THIEMANN Nuclear Risk, Domestic Responsibility, and the Uses of Comedy: Elizabeth Stuckey-French's The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady; III Environmental Risks Across Media; CHRISTINE GERHARDT Beyond Climate Refugees: Nature, Risk and Migration in American Poetry KARIN HÖPKER A Sense of an Ending -- Risk, Catastrophe and Precarious Humanity in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and CrakeNICOLE MARUO-SCHRÖDER "It's theoretically possible": Disaster and Risk in Contemporary American Film; COLIN MILBURN Green Gaming: Video Games and Environmental Risk; Index; List of Contributors American literature 20th century History and criticism. Catastrophical, The, in literature History and criticism. Ecology in literature History and criticism. Littérature américaine 20e siècle Histoire et critique. Catastrophe (Philosophie) dans la littérature Histoire et critique. American literature fast Catastrophical, The, in literature fast Ecology in literature fast |
| title | The anticipation of catastrophe : environmental risk in North American literature and culture / |
| title_auth | The anticipation of catastrophe : environmental risk in North American literature and culture / |
| title_exact_search | The anticipation of catastrophe : environmental risk in North American literature and culture / |
| title_full | The anticipation of catastrophe : environmental risk in North American literature and culture / Sylvia Mayer, Alexa Weik von Mossner, editors. |
| title_fullStr | The anticipation of catastrophe : environmental risk in North American literature and culture / Sylvia Mayer, Alexa Weik von Mossner, editors. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The anticipation of catastrophe : environmental risk in North American literature and culture / Sylvia Mayer, Alexa Weik von Mossner, editors. |
| title_short | The anticipation of catastrophe : |
| title_sort | anticipation of catastrophe environmental risk in north american literature and culture |
| title_sub | environmental risk in North American literature and culture / |
| topic | American literature 20th century History and criticism. Catastrophical, The, in literature History and criticism. Ecology in literature History and criticism. Littérature américaine 20e siècle Histoire et critique. Catastrophe (Philosophie) dans la littérature Histoire et critique. American literature fast Catastrophical, The, in literature fast Ecology in literature fast |
| topic_facet | American literature 20th century History and criticism. Catastrophical, The, in literature History and criticism. Ecology in literature History and criticism. Littérature américaine 20e siècle Histoire et critique. Catastrophe (Philosophie) dans la littérature Histoire et critique. American literature Catastrophical, The, in literature Ecology in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| url | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2041115 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT mayersylvia theanticipationofcatastropheenvironmentalriskinnorthamericanliteratureandculture AT weikvonmossneralexa theanticipationofcatastropheenvironmentalriskinnorthamericanliteratureandculture AT mayersylvia anticipationofcatastropheenvironmentalriskinnorthamericanliteratureandculture AT weikvonmossneralexa anticipationofcatastropheenvironmentalriskinnorthamericanliteratureandculture |