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1995. pages.
0896723542
978-0-89672-354-2
$30.00 cloth
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Climate and Literature: Reflections of Environment Edited by Janet Perez and Wendell Aycock
With the rise of a succession of sophisticated approaches that largely disregard literature's traditional role as a mirror of life, climate and other environmental factors have been generally disregarded in the interpretation of literary texts during recent decades. For that reason, it is only fitting that the climatological dimension be re-explored after a forty-year hiatus.
"Climate and Literature embraces a significant revision of the original telluric "notions" about the determinist relationship between climate and the attitudes and behavior of literary characters set in particular surroundings. In place of such vague notions, we find within these pages interesting and stimulating examples of true applied science and contemporary literary theory that more often than not treat literary depiction of climate not so much as a reflection of influence of particular geographic environments, but as a powerful symbol for psychological or textural processes undergone by the novels' characters, narrators or readers."—Dr. Thomas Franz, Ohio State University.
Writing the Bodies of Water: The Clash of the Lasting and the Catastrophic in the Odes of Horace
Climate as Science and Metaphor in the Writings of Jehuda Halevi
Astral and Tidal Phenomena, Earthquake Prediction, and the Astronomical Clock of Juan de Barrenechea
Zola's Uses of Climate in The Land
The Role of Climate in Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction
The Endless Rains of Death and Desolation
Creating an Atmosphere: Depiction of Climate in the Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Weather as A Story Element in Four Short Works from Latin America
Heat, Water, and Stars in Pedro Paramo
Ice Everlasting and Passions Perverted: The Physical and Moral Climate of Puig's Anti-Utopia
Influence of Climate on the Cultures of the Jungle as Perceived by Two Latin American Novelists
Climate and Identity in the Literature of the French Antilles
Afro-Cuban Culture, Ecology, and Climate in "La comparsa"
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