(Eco)anxiety in nuclear holocaust fiction and climate fiction : doomsday clock narratives /: doomsday clock narratives. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dominika Oramus.
• Authors: Oramus, Dominika, 1972-
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (192 pages)
• Subjects: 809.93355; Disasters in literature; Ecofiction -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000910254; 9781000910216
• Related ISBNs: 9781032468921
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