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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Climate fiction"”.
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Humanising climate change through climate fiction: A literary examination of New York 2140 (2017) by Robinson and the Drowned world (1962) by Ballard
… films whose main focus is on the consequences of climate change (Svoboda, 2016). This thesis employed a qualitative desktop literary analysis and purposively sampled two cli-fi novels, New York 2140 (2017) by Robinson and The Drowned World (1962) by Ballard as they explicitly capture the main …
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Climates of Mutation: Posthuman Orientations in Twenty-First Century Ecological Science Fiction
Climates of Mutation contributes to the growing body of works focused on climate fiction by exploring the entangled aspects of biopolitics, posthumanism, and eco-assemblage in twenty-first-century science fiction. By tracing out each of those themes, I examine how my contemporary focal texts …
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Dystopia: An Ecological History
… a reappraisal of twentieth-century dystopian fiction in the roughly thirty years after World War II by identifying the environmental dimensions of many of the most genre-defining authors and novels of this period. Given the escalating climate emergency and the growing popularity of climate …
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Our Ice Age: The Geohistorical Imagination in the Northern Hemisphere
… the historical and narrative significance of climate change by examining representations of the ice age, a relatively recent geological moment that began 2.5 million years ago and continues, according to climatologists, into our own “interglacial” time. Linking scientific and literary …
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Storms and Stories
… present and future environments that the climate crisis creates, tension between rural and urban spaces, and narratives of working-class characters. These stories were written during my time studying in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi between Fall 2019 and …
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Calamity Sample: Stories About The Weatherman
… Sample</em> is a novella written in flash fiction, micro stories, & lyrical echoes, centering on the life of a sensitive meteorologist & weather broadcaster who attempts to continue an ordinary existence in a world ravaged by climatically-based apocalypse. The Weatherman, only referred to …