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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Jesse Oak Taylor Climate change cannot be experienced, only imagined. While we can experience the weather at any given moment, climate refers to the aggregation of weather patterns over time and thus can be accessed only through models and projections. This presents both a crisis and an opportunity...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 115–138.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Matthew A. Taylor This essay contends that planetarity may be insufficiently divorced from globalization—its putative opposite—to provide a critical lens for understanding and countering its effects: specifically, anthropogenic climate change and global economic inequality. The argument begins...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Benjamin Morgan Abstract Concepts of scale have become urgent and contested in two thriving but seemingly unrelated fields. Humanities scholarship on anthropogenic climate change often argues that our historical present is defined by a conflict between human and geological timescales. At the same...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 388–405.
Published: 01 November 2022
... has reached its limit. It is now blocking the kinds of political action that will be necessary to slowing the pace of climate change and building material conditions for collective flourishing. This is a moment for novel critics, then, to rethink our relationship to endings. The nineteenth‐century...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 22–43.
Published: 01 May 2024
... anthropocentrism biocentrism ecocriticism Richard Powers The Overstory As the effects of climate change become increasingly obvious in daily life, newly published novels are more and more likely to foreground environmental themes. Contemporary eco-novelists are engaged in a project to use their chosen...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 104–119.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and encroach upon the “planetary boundaries” identified in 2015 by Will Steffen and colleagues, Atwood's novelistic deployment of psychological survival strategies aligns with calls from, among others, Doherty and Clayton to understand climate change for its affective and emotional impacts across individuals...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 109–117.
Published: 01 May 2024
... studies, which I describe as a reconsideration of texts’ political and material efficacy in the face of anthropogenic climate change and species extinction. I suggest that a unique set of institutional factors, including neoliberal austerity measures underwriting the turn to “postcritique,” as well...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 410–429.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of the twentieth century, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) adopted scenarios as the official method for projecting climate futures. Their 2000 special report on emissions scenarios, which details the value, purpose, and characteristics of this methodology, came out the same year that Paul...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 10–25.
Published: 01 May 2016
... induced by climate change. In this portrait of Earth along with other, more functional planetary habitats, Robinson reflects on the notion of the Anthropocene as it has been discussed for the last decade and a half, the idea that humans have transformed Earth so pervasively that their impact affects even...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 316–342.
Published: 01 August 2016
... to realism freshly unlocked from its subordinate role in a promodernist critical climate. Both shifts—in the practice and in the theory of world realism—can be understood as post–Cold War effects. Surveying the recent rise of realism as a favored object and methodological reference point in novel studies...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 466–470.
Published: 01 November 2019
... . The Metamorphosis of Our World: How Climate Change Is Transforming Our Concept of the World . Boston : Polity , 2016 . ...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 343–346.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., exemplify the crises of climate change and nonstop work as outgrowths of global capitalism. Martin offers a tour de force reading of the Western, touching on at least ten films from across US, Italian, and Japanese traditions. The globalization of the Western corresponds to its ecological turn...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 May 2024
... that we now associate with climate change ( 62 ). While ecocritics, including Miller, often use the term “Anthropocene” to denote the epoch of human-driven (anthropogenic) climate change, some environmental sociologists like Jason W. Moore prefer the term “Capitalocene” to emphasize how this “new...
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 204–225.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of generic value. In The Great Derangement , Ghosh laments the fact that to include the “overwhelmingly, urgently, astoundingly real” (27) threats of climate change in a novel “is in fact to court eviction from the mansion in which serious fiction has long been in residence; it is to risk banishment...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 May 2016
... . Indian Summer . Trans. Frye Wendell W. . New York : Lang , 1985 . Watt Ian . The Rise of the Novel . Berkeley : U of California P , 1957 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Anthopocene environmental humanities book of nature climate change Adalbert...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., climate change, mass extinction; the sign under which inhuman scales start to look profoundly human after all. While the Anthropocene is useful for indexing the anthropogenic character of these overwhelming events, it also, as Dipesh Chakrabarty observes, “leaves us with the challenge of having to think...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 388–396.
Published: 01 November 2017
... by climate change ( Flood of Fire ; Great Derangement ). In another direction, Colson Whitehead recombines the shared genetic code of science fiction and the historical novel in The Underground Railroad , taking up a countertradition initiated nearly four decades ago by Octavia Butler. In Butler's...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 441–451.
Published: 01 November 2017
... presidential politics, transgender rights, health care, racism, wages, war, music, climate change, religion, and new media. Finding their footing in a concept that is by definition mobile and unfixed, feminist literary theories carry this attentiveness to formal transformation into their reading...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 146–150.
Published: 01 May 2023
... time to read about apocalypse. Good if you're looking for a literary path through the flaming hellscape of coronavirus, climate change, border wars, white supremacy, and incipient fascism; bad if you'd prefer some escapist fare. Curiously, Mark Payne's Flowers of Time: On Postapocalyptic Fiction...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of climate-change-driven conflict make it harder than ever to tell what would constitute liberation or whether that aspiration remains relevant as a goal. In the absence of the broad overarching themes of the 1960s, the essays in this issue rely on different approaches to framing the present for good reason...
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