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Project

Climate Impiety: Beyond Post-Apocalyptic Climate Change Fiction
Code
01D20717
Duration
01 October 2017 → 05 February 2022
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
climate change Anthropocene ecocriticism contemporary literature Anglophone literature Literary studies
 
Project description
 

Most climate change literature takes the form of post-apocalyptic, dystopian novels. This form, however, simplifies and compresses the phenomenon to make it dramatic and containable on a human scale. Focusing on climate literature that deviates from the norm, this project will explore alternative narrative strategies that might be more apt to represent the vast dimensions and complexity of climate change.