Risk Criticism

Risk Criticism is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset its iconic Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight, as close to the apocalypse as it has been since 1953....

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Wallace, Molly
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منشور في: University of Michigan Press 2021
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description Risk Criticism is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset 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 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. If we may once have believed that the end of days would come in a blaze of nuclear firestorm, we now suspect that the apocalypse may be much slower, creeping in as chemical toxins, climate change, or nano-technologies run amok. Taking inspiration from the questions raised by the Bulletin’s synecdochical “nuclear,” Risk Criticism aims to generate a hybrid form of critical practice that brings “nuclear criticism” into conversation with ecocriticism. Through readings of novels, films, theater, poetry, visual art, websites, news reports, and essays, Risk Criticism tracks the diverse ways in which environmental risks are understood and represented today.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-376432025-07-31T14:24:59Z Risk Criticism Wallace, Molly Literature Bhopal Plastic Risk Criticism is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset 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 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. If we may once have believed that the end of days would come in a blaze of nuclear firestorm, we now suspect that the apocalypse may be much slower, creeping in as chemical toxins, climate change, or nano-technologies run amok. Taking inspiration from the questions raised by the Bulletin’s synecdochical “nuclear,” Risk Criticism aims to generate a hybrid form of critical practice that brings “nuclear criticism” into conversation with ecocriticism. Through readings of novels, films, theater, poetry, visual art, websites, news reports, and essays, Risk Criticism tracks the diverse ways in which environmental risks are understood and represented today. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-12 03:00:29 2020-04-01T12:44:22Z 2016-05-01 book 650027 OCN: 1030822707 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30073 9780472900671 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37643 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30073/1/650027.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30073/1/650027.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30073/1/650027.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30073/1/650027.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30073/1/650027.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30073/1/650027.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.8831301 10.3998/mpub.8831301 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780472900671 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Knowledge Unlatched Round 2 Ann Arbor 103495 KU Round 2 open access
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