Academic Responsibility and the Climate of Posterity

Sitter, John

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“…, Similarly, Adamson analyses contemporary folk stories and finds that these offer ‘ecocritics and activists new tools’ for ‘making abstract, often intangible global patterns associated with climate change accessible to a wider public.’ Christensen too suggests that texts that ‘focus on the way the weather shapes the physical contexts, personalities, and destinies of their respective characters’ can help us live with weather and climate . Many ecocritics, for example, Gabriel and Garrard and Sitter, have also focused on pedagogy, indicating that the role of the ecocritic includes teaching students about the dangers and complexities of climate change. In this vein, Cenkl describes how the work of poets of the Arctic regions has helped him and his students to understand changing lived experiences in a changing climate…”

Section: Climate Change In Literary Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate change in literature and literary studies: From cli‐fi, climate change theater and ecopoetry to ecocriticism and climate change criticism

Johns‐Putra

2016

WIREs Climate Change

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In the last 5 years, climate change has emerged as a dominant theme in literature and, correspondingly, in literary studies. Its popularity in fiction has given rise to the term cli‐fi, or climate change fiction, and speculation that this constitutes a distinctive literary genre. In theater, the appearance of several big‐name productions from 2009 to 2011 has inspired an increase in climate change plays. There has been a growing trend, too, of climate change poetry, thanks to the rise of ecopoetry (poetry that exhibits ecological awareness and engages with the world's current state of environmental degradation) and the launch of some key climate change poetry initiatives in the media. This prevalence of climate change literature has brought about a greater engagement with climate change in literary studies, notably the environmentally oriented branch of literary studies called ecocriticism. The increasing number of ecocritical analyses of climate change literature, particularly novels, is helping to shape a canon of climate change fiction. In a separate development, there has been greater interest in the phenomenon of climate change in literary or critical theory (the branch of literary studies concerned with literary concepts and philosophies rather than with literary texts). This development—centered on the study of climate change as a philosophical or existentialist problem—is sometimes termed climate change criticism or critical climate change. WIREs Clim Change 2016, 7:266–282. doi: 10.1002/wcc.385 This article is categorized under: Trans‐Disciplinary Perspectives > Humanities and the Creative Arts

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Section: Climate Change In Literary Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%