In contrast to most other fictional texts treating ecological crisis, Ian McEwan's Solar (2010), celebrated as "the book on climate change," does not develop an apocalyptic scenario culminating in a collective catastrophe. Instead, while on the level of discourse mocking today's rhetoric of risk, it stages the disastrous personal risk management of its protagonist by use of satire. Whereas traditionally literary descriptions of natural disasters often function as allegories for social disasters, McEwan reverses this model by employing a private disaster to foreshadow a possible global catastrophe. The story can thus be read as satiric-allegorical risk narrative. On the one hand this concept is responsible for basic misunderstandings, on the...
Ecocriticism has been at the forefront of introducing risk theory and ...
How can the realities of global warming be made visible in literary texts? After the rise of 'cli-fi...
The disaster scenario is one of the predominant settings we find unfold in the pop-cultural imaginat...
A diferencia de la mayoría de los textos de ficción que narran crisis écologicas, la novela "Solar...
Key words: Solar, global warming, ecocriticism, mock-heroic, literary realism.In this article I read...
Solar, Ian McEwan’s first novel about climate change, employs a comic tone that departs from most cl...
This essay is an ecocritical literary analysis of the novel Solar. The aim is to investigate the eff...
The three main settings of McEwan's Solar, a novel described as "the first great global-warming nove...
Incredulity towards the metanarrative emerged from discourses conducted during various international...
Cape Farewell is an international not-for-profit programme based in the UK which brings creatives, s...
This paper analyses the use of the rhetoric of the Apocalypse and the concept of nature's reve...
Ecocriticism constitutes the fictional treatment of environmental problems. Climate Change is one of...
Climate change is problematic to the imagination; it is highly complex, vast and possesses character...
This thesis examines how six contemporary novels variously intervene in the current crisis of climat...
Anthropogener Klimawandel ist ein Phänomen, das von Abstraktheit, Komplexität, Unsicherheit und Kont...
Ecocriticism has been at the forefront of introducing risk theory and ...
How can the realities of global warming be made visible in literary texts? After the rise of 'cli-fi...
The disaster scenario is one of the predominant settings we find unfold in the pop-cultural imaginat...
A diferencia de la mayoría de los textos de ficción que narran crisis écologicas, la novela "Solar...
Key words: Solar, global warming, ecocriticism, mock-heroic, literary realism.In this article I read...
Solar, Ian McEwan’s first novel about climate change, employs a comic tone that departs from most cl...
This essay is an ecocritical literary analysis of the novel Solar. The aim is to investigate the eff...
The three main settings of McEwan's Solar, a novel described as "the first great global-warming nove...
Incredulity towards the metanarrative emerged from discourses conducted during various international...
Cape Farewell is an international not-for-profit programme based in the UK which brings creatives, s...
This paper analyses the use of the rhetoric of the Apocalypse and the concept of nature's reve...
Ecocriticism constitutes the fictional treatment of environmental problems. Climate Change is one of...
Climate change is problematic to the imagination; it is highly complex, vast and possesses character...
This thesis examines how six contemporary novels variously intervene in the current crisis of climat...
Anthropogener Klimawandel ist ein Phänomen, das von Abstraktheit, Komplexität, Unsicherheit und Kont...
Ecocriticism has been at the forefront of introducing risk theory and ...
How can the realities of global warming be made visible in literary texts? After the rise of 'cli-fi...
The disaster scenario is one of the predominant settings we find unfold in the pop-cultural imaginat...