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"Climate change fiction is a new literary phenomenon that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century in response to what may be society's greatest challenge. Climate change is already part responsible for extreme weather events, flooding, desertification and sea level rise, leading to famine, the spread of disease, and population displacement. Cli-fi novels and films are typically set in the future, telling of disaster and its effect on humans, or they depict the present, beset by dilemmas, conflicts or conspiracies, and pointing to grave consequences. At their heart are ethical and political questions: will humankind rise to the challenge of acting collectively, in the interest of the future? What sacrifices will be necessary, and is a green dictatorship our only hope for survival as a species? Each chapter in this volume offers a way of reading a particular literary text or film, drawing attention to themes, formal features, reception, contribution to public debate, and issues for class discussion. Popular novels and films (Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy, Michael Crichton's State of Fear, Ian McEwan's Solar, and The Day after Tomorrow) are examined alongside lesser known writing (for instance J. G. Ballard's 'proto-climate change' novel The Drowned World and Antti Tuomainen's Finnish thriller, The Healer), and films not generally thought of as being about climate change (Frozen and Take Shelter). The book, which includes an introduction tracing the emergence and influence of cli-fi, is directed towards general readers and film enthusiasts as well as teachers and students. Written in an accessible style, it fills the gap between academic studies and online blogs, offering a comprehensive look at this timely new genre" --

Climatic changes in literature.

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Ecocriticism in literature --- Climatic changes in literature

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Les habitants du Japon bénéficient d'une nature généreuse mais instable, l'archipel étant situé sur une faille de subduction de l'écorce terrestre. Ce phénomène a profondément influencé leur sensibilité et développé chez eux une culture de l'impermanence, du provisoire et du sentiment de l'instabilité de toute chose, le mujôkan. L'expression culturelle de ce sentiment prend corps notamment dans ces poèmes courts et lapidaires, les haïkus, dont le tour de force consiste à tout dire de l'univers en quelques mots. Mais quand l'environnement japonais se dégrade sous les coups de boutoirs d'une industrialisation qui signifie souvent saccage d'une nature si idéalisée en poésie, musique, peinture ou dans l'art des jardins, des compositeurs de haïku portent alors témoignage de cette contradiction fondamentale et, en véritables lanceurs d'alerte, font de la poésie « une arme chargée de futur »̃.

Climatic changes in literature --- Haiku --- Japanese poetry --- History and criticism.

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"As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the distribution of beach trash in Chennai, chronicling disruptions in seasonal winds and currents along the Bay of Bengal. An essayist in the northeastern United States observes that maple sap flows earlier now, prompting him to reflect on gender and seasons of transition. Poets affiliated with small island nations arrive in Paris for the United Nations climate summit, revamping the occasional poem to attest to intensifying storm seasons across the Pacific. In Unseasonable, Sarah Dimick links these accounts of shifting seasons across the globe, tracing how knowledge of climate change is constructed, conveyed, and amplified via literature. She documents how the unseasonable reverberates through environmentally privileged and environmentally precarious communities. In chapters ranging from Henry David Thoreau's journals to Alexis Wright's depiction of Australia's catastrophic bushfires, from classical Tamil poetry to repeat photography, Dimick illustrates how seasonal rhythms determine what flourishes and what perishes. She contends that climate injustice is an increasingly temporal issue, unfolding not only along the axes of who and where but also in relation to when. Amid misaligned and broken rhythms, attending to the shared but disparate experience of the unseasonable can realign or sharpen solidarities within the climate crisis"--

Changements climatiques. --- Climatic changes in literature. --- Ecocriticism. --- Seasons in literature.

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"In Climate Lyricism Min Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that foregrounds how climate is present in most literature. Song shows how literature, poetry, and essays by Tommy Pico, Solmaz Sharif, Frank O'Hara, Ilya Kaminsky, Claudia Rankine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Richard Powers, and others, and others help us to better grapple with our everyday encounters with climate change and its disastrous effects, which are inextricably linked to the legacies of racism, colonialism, and extraction. These works employ what Song calls climate lyricism-a mode of address in which a first-person "I" speaks to a "you" about how climate change thoroughly shapes daily life. This lyricism and its relationship between "I" and "you," Song contends, affects the ways readers comprehend the world, fostering a model of shared agency from which it can become possible to collectively and urgently respond to the catastrophe of our rapidly changing climate. In this way, climate lyricism helps to ameliorate the sense of being overwhelmed and feeling unable to do anything to combat climate change"--

Climatic changes in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century. --- Literature, Modern --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General. --- History and criticism --- Climatic changes in literature --- History and criticism.