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Risikogesellschaften : literatur- und geschichtswissenschaftliche Perspektiven
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ISBN: 9783837643237 3837643239 Year: 2018 Publisher: Bielefeld Transcript

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Literatur als Wagnis
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ISBN: 9783110282801 3110282801 3110282895 9783110282894 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berlin ; New York Walter de Gruyter

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An engagement with the complex semantics of the terms "risk-taking" and "risk" promises to provide significant insights about important and perhaps fundamental elements of literary writing in the modern and contemporary eras. The papers from this comparative literature symposium sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) examine the history of "risk-taking" and "risk" in the contexts of literature, aesthetic poetology, and history.


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Risk in children's adventure literature
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ISBN: 9780367623234 Year: 2024 Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge,

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Risk in Children's Adventure Literature examines the way in which adults discuss the reading and entertainment habits of children, and with it the assumption that adventure is a timeless and stable constant whose meaning and value is self-evident.


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The anticipation of catastrophe : environmental risk in North American literature and culture
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ISBN: 9783825363345 3825363341 Year: 2014 Publisher: Heidelberg Universitätsverlag Winter


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Risk criticism : precautionary reading in an age of environmental uncertainty
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ISBN: 0472121693 9780472121694 9780472900671 0472900676 9780472073023 0472073028 9780472053025 0472053027 Year: 2016 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press,

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'Risk Criticism: Reading in an Age of Manufactured Uncertainties' is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk that offers an environmental humanities approach to understanding risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. 'Risk Criticism: Reading in an Age of Manufactured Uncertainties' is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk that offers an environmental humanities approach to understanding risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists re-set its iconic Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight, as close to the apocalypse as it has been since 1953. What pushed its hands was, however, not just the threat of nuclear weapons, but also other global environmental risks that the Bulletin judged to have risen to the scale of the nuclear, including climate change and innovations in the life sciences.

Victorian writing about risk
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ISBN: 1107120241 0511151160 051131051X 0511045956 0521781086 1280154756 0511118635 0511484798 0511010125 9780511010125 0511030703 9780511030703 9780511118630 9780521781084 9780511484797 9780511045950 9780511151163 9781280154751 9786610154753 6610154759 9781107120242 9780521028721 0521028728 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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In Victorian Writing about Risk, first published in 2000, Elaine Freedgood explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on political economy, sanitary reform, balloon flight, Alpine mountaineering and African exploration. The consolations offered by this geography of risk are precariously predicated on the stability of dominant Victorian definitions of people and places. Women, men, the labouring and middle classes, the English and the Irish, Africa and Africans: all have assigned identities which allow risk to be located and contained. When identities shift and boundaries fail, danger and safety begin to appear in all the wrong places. The texts that this study focuses on reveal the ways in which risk moralizes and naturalizes the economic and political institutions of industrial, imperial culture during a period of unprecedented expansion and change.

A feminist ethic of risk.
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ISBN: 0800631854 Year: 2000 Publisher: Minneapolis (Minn.) Fortress

Families in jeopardy : regulating the social body in France, 1750-1910
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ISBN: 0804722242 Year: 1993 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press

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