This paper analyses the use of the rhetoric of the Apocalypse and the concept of nature's revenge in Frank Schätzing's eco-thriller The Swarm. Ecocritical research has identified these narrative patterns as characteristic of contemporary environmental literature. In The Swarm, the apocalyptical rhetoric fulfils the double function of providing thrill and pleasure to the readers and warning them about imminent environmental peril, thereby combining conventions from the two genres of eco-thriller and science fiction. Contrasting reviews have described the novel as either enlightening or pseudo-religious. This ambivalence is the effect of various strategies employed to popularise scientific knowledge in the novel. The narrative embr...
We now have entered the Anthropocene. Humanity is the new geological force drastically changing the ...
Natural disasters. It was time for a drink. ” This is how marine biologist Sigur Johanson sums up th...
Climate change is problematic to the imagination; it is highly complex, vast and possesses character...
This paper analyses the use of the rhetoric of the Apocalypse and the concept of nature's revenge in...
Este trabajo analiza el uso de la retórica del Apocalipsis y el concepto de la venganza de la natu...
The disaster scenario is one of the predominant settings we find unfold in the pop-cultural imaginat...
Read as apocalyptic ecothrillers, Frank Schätzing’s The Swarm an...
Read as apocalyptic ecothrillers, Frank Schätzing’s The Swarm and Liz Jensen’s The Rapture do not of...
Read as apocalyptic ecothrillers, Frank Schätzing’s The Swarm and Liz Jensen’sThe Rapture do not off...
The aim of this thesis is to examine the definitions and uses of apocalyptic rhetoric in contemporar...
This thesis discusses the connection between humanity and the ecosystem as they relate to modern sci...
This thesis utilizes concepts of the ecocritical theory of deep ecology to elucidate non-anthropocen...
Ecocriticism constitutes the fictional treatment of environmental problems. Climate Change is one of...
A significant strand of contemporary fiction engages with scientific models that highlight a constit...
Literary works can show problems in our life, such as the ones in the relationship between human bei...
We now have entered the Anthropocene. Humanity is the new geological force drastically changing the ...
Natural disasters. It was time for a drink. ” This is how marine biologist Sigur Johanson sums up th...
Climate change is problematic to the imagination; it is highly complex, vast and possesses character...
This paper analyses the use of the rhetoric of the Apocalypse and the concept of nature's revenge in...
Este trabajo analiza el uso de la retórica del Apocalipsis y el concepto de la venganza de la natu...
The disaster scenario is one of the predominant settings we find unfold in the pop-cultural imaginat...
Read as apocalyptic ecothrillers, Frank Schätzing’s The Swarm an...
Read as apocalyptic ecothrillers, Frank Schätzing’s The Swarm and Liz Jensen’s The Rapture do not of...
Read as apocalyptic ecothrillers, Frank Schätzing’s The Swarm and Liz Jensen’sThe Rapture do not off...
The aim of this thesis is to examine the definitions and uses of apocalyptic rhetoric in contemporar...
This thesis discusses the connection between humanity and the ecosystem as they relate to modern sci...
This thesis utilizes concepts of the ecocritical theory of deep ecology to elucidate non-anthropocen...
Ecocriticism constitutes the fictional treatment of environmental problems. Climate Change is one of...
A significant strand of contemporary fiction engages with scientific models that highlight a constit...
Literary works can show problems in our life, such as the ones in the relationship between human bei...
We now have entered the Anthropocene. Humanity is the new geological force drastically changing the ...
Natural disasters. It was time for a drink. ” This is how marine biologist Sigur Johanson sums up th...
Climate change is problematic to the imagination; it is highly complex, vast and possesses character...