(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction demonstrates that disaster fictionâ nuclear holocaust and climate change alikeâ allows us to unearth and anatomize contemporary psychodynamics, and enables us to identify pre-traumatic stress as the common denominator of seemingly unrelated types of texts.
(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction demonstrates that disaster fictionâ nuclear holocaust and climate change alikeâ allows us to unearth and anatomize contemporary psychodynamics, and enables us to identify pre-traumatic stress as the common denominator of seemingly unrelated types of texts.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
Dominika Oramus is a full professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw and holder of a PhD in literature studies (1999, University of Warsaw) and of a postdoctoral degree in liberal arts (2008, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Modern Languages). Her books include Grave New World: The Decline of the West in the Fiction of J. G. Ballard (Terminal Press, 2015).
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INTRODUCTION: Doomsday Clock Narratives Chapter I Anticipating Disasters: Anxieties and Traumas - Eco-Anxiety and Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome - Pre-Traumatic Stress: the Psychoanalytical Perspective Chapter II Writing about Disasters: Metaphors and Parables - Geological Metaphors - Parables of Nature and Symbolic Timepieces Chapter III Disaster Fantasies: Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction - Disaster Story Tradition - Nuclear Holocaust Fiction - Climate Fiction Chapter IV 'Maybe it's a period of grace': Mid-Twentieth-Century Nuclear Holocaust Fiction in the Hands of Nevil Shute and Walter M. Miller - Nevil Shute On the Beach - Walter M. Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz Chapter V 'Imposing fantasies on the changing landscape:' the Visions of John Christopher, J.G. Ballard and George Turner - John Christopher The World in Winter - J.G. Ballard The Drought - George Turner The Sea and Summer Chapter VI 'I wonder how much longer we have:' Recent Climate Fiction from the Pens of Maggie Gee, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ruth Ozeki and Yoko Tawada - Maggie Gee The Ice People - Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl - Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being - Yoko Tawada The Last Children of Tokyo CONCLUSION: Reading Climate Anxiety Through the Lens of a Nuclear Holocaust - The Uses of Doomsday Clock Narratives - Fallout and Flood -"We," the Readers of Doomsday Clock Narratives
INTRODUCTION: Doomsday Clock Narratives Chapter I Anticipating Disasters: Anxieties and Traumas - Eco-Anxiety and Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome - Pre-Traumatic Stress: the Psychoanalytical Perspective Chapter II Writing about Disasters: Metaphors and Parables - Geological Metaphors - Parables of Nature and Symbolic Timepieces Chapter III Disaster Fantasies: Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction - Disaster Story Tradition - Nuclear Holocaust Fiction - Climate Fiction Chapter IV 'Maybe it's a period of grace': Mid-Twentieth-Century Nuclear Holocaust Fiction in the Hands of Nevil Shute and Walter M. Miller - Nevil Shute On the Beach - Walter M. Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz Chapter V 'Imposing fantasies on the changing landscape:' the Visions of John Christopher, J.G. Ballard and George Turner - John Christopher The World in Winter - J.G. Ballard The Drought - George Turner The Sea and Summer Chapter VI 'I wonder how much longer we have:' Recent Climate Fiction from the Pens of Maggie Gee, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ruth Ozeki and Yoko Tawada - Maggie Gee The Ice People - Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl - Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being - Yoko Tawada The Last Children of Tokyo CONCLUSION: Reading Climate Anxiety Through the Lens of a Nuclear Holocaust - The Uses of Doomsday Clock Narratives - Fallout and Flood -"We," the Readers of Doomsday Clock Narratives
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