Format:
132 Seiten ;
,
24 cm.
ISBN:
9781640141315
,
1640141316
Series Statement:
Studies in English and American literature and culture
Content:
"With the rise of concern about global warming in recent years, climate-change fiction, or clifi, has become increasingly important both as a publishing phenomenon and as an area of academic study and research. Flood narratives have become a subsection of clifi in their own right. This book proposes new readings of four recent rewritings of the Noah myth, Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich, Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy, When the Floods Came by Clare Morrall, and The Flood by Maggie Gee. Helen E. Mundler's book takes into account the wealth of criticism that has appeared on these texts in recent years, acknowledging important contributions from critics including Adam Trexler, Adeline Johns-Putra, and Astrid Bracke. However, her book's strength is that it takes a new approach, going beyond the topicality of the texts and treating them not just as ideological statements but giving them their due as literary artifacts. And while the importance of climate change is beyond debate, this book takes a more balanced approach that places it within a wider context of the multiple crises of the Anthropocene"--
Note:
An Odd Sort of Cli-Fi? Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow -- "Hadn't mankind done it before-started from scratch?" Reinterpreting Visions of Past and Future in Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy -- Watering Down? Clare Morrall's When the Floods Came -- The Archive and After: A Kaleidoscopic Reading of Maggie Gee's The Flood
Additional Edition:
Online version Mundler, Helen E. Noah myth in twenty-first-century cli-fi novels Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2022 ISBN 9781800108080
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Literary criticism
