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Émile Zola’s Climate History of the Second Empire Émile左拉的第二帝国气候史

European journal of literature, culture and the environment Pub Date : 2020-03-12 DOI: 10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3181

Johannes Ungelenk

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Scaling High Places. Mountaineering Narratives as Climatological Tales 攀登高处。作为气候故事的登山叙事

European journal of literature, culture and the environment Pub Date : 2020-03-11 DOI: 10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3192

S. Nitzke

{"title":"Scaling High Places. Mountaineering Narratives as Climatological Tales","authors":"S. Nitzke","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3192","url":null,"abstract":"espanolEn las novelas “Der fliegende Berg” (2006) de Christoph Ransmayr y “Das grosere Wunder” (2013) de Thomas Glavinic, se enfrentan dos ideas radicales en torno al alpinismo. Jonas, el protagonista de Glavinic, participa en una expedicion comercial para encumbrar la cima del monte mas alto del mundo. Esta clase de proyectos comerciales tan fuertemente criticados se presenta en total oposicion a lo representado en la novela de Ransmayr, en la que los hermanos Patrick y Liam se embarcan en un viaje personal a una montana mitica – el ultimo monte del Himalaya que nadie habia logrado subir. La extravagancia deportiva y comercial y la aventura totalmente independiente representan los dos extremos de una practica que tiene como objetivo la produccion de enfrentamientos intensamente fisicos con la naturaleza. Las dos novelas confrontan la posibilidad de estos enfrentamientos con relatos de las vidas de sus protagonistas en un mundo completamente moderno. Ajustando las biografias con la subida a las montanas correspondientes, los relatos se presentan como mediaciones entre escalas personales y planetarios. El clima, por lo tanto, no solo esta presente como un obstaculo a superar, sino como un recurso narrativo que negocia las relaciones cada vez mas precarias entre humanos y naturaleza. Comparados con relatos alpinistas de no-ficcion, estas narraciones revelan una concepcion del clima que no se circunscribe unicamente en una mera “concepcion de la atmosfera siempre afectada por el tiempo/clima” (Fleming/Jankovic 2). En su lugar, renuevan percepciones aparentemente rechazadas del clima como entidad local y corporal. Usando el concepto de “Klima” desarrollado por Fleming/Jankovic—una nocion del clima combinando hechos naturales y culturales—este articulo investiga los aspectos metodologicos y narrativos de la escalada, la aclimatacion y la alta montana para sacar a la luz el mito que subyace estos relatos climatologicos, ademas de mostrar sus (posibles) efectos productivos y destructivos en discursos contemporaneos sobre las relaciones entre humanos y naturaleza en el Antropoceno. EnglishChristoph Ransmayr’s 2006 novel “Der fliegende Berg” and Thomas Glavinic’s “Das grosere Wunder” (published in 2013) confront very different ideas of mountaineering. Glavinic’s protagonist Jonas joins a commercial expedition to summit the world’s highest mountain. These highly criticized commercial endeavors are in contrast to Ransmayr’s scenario in which two brothers, Patrick and Liam, embark on a journey to a mythical peak—the only Himalayan mountain yet to be summited. The commercial sporting extravaganza and the ultimate independent adventure represent two extremes of a practice aimed at producing intense physical encounters with nature. Both novels confront the possibility of such encounters with an account of the life of their protagonists within a thoroughly modern world. In aligning biography with the ascent of the respective peak, the narratives present themselv","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134647443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Pathogenesis of the Modern Climate 现代气候的发病机制

European journal of literature, culture and the environment Pub Date : 2020-03-08 DOI: 10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3179

M. Boyden

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Book Review of Techno-Thoreau: Aesthetics, Ecology and the Capitalocene 技术梭罗书评:美学、生态学与资本新世

European journal of literature, culture and the environment Pub Date : 2020-03-05 DOI: 10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3523

Başak Ağın

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Book Review of Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse 《气候与危机:作为环境话语的魔幻现实主义》书评

European journal of literature, culture and the environment Pub Date : 2020-02-28 DOI: 10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3265

Jessica Maufort

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New Directions in African American Ecocriticism 非裔美国人生态批评的新方向

European journal of literature, culture and the environment Pub Date : 2020-02-27 DOI: 10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3262

Matthias Klestil

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Book Review of Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverance in the Ecological Age 坏环境主义书评:生态时代的讽刺与不敬

European journal of literature, culture and the environment Pub Date : 2020-02-27 DOI: 10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3266

K. Ritson

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Book Review of Future Remains. A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene 《未来遗迹》书评。人类世的珍品陈列柜

European journal of literature, culture and the environment Pub Date : 2020-02-27 DOI: 10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3263

S. Nitzke

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Rewriting Leda and the swan: an ecofeminist analysis of Angela Carter’s "The Magic Toyshop" (1967), and Lorna Crozier’s “Forms of Innocence” (1985) and “The Swan Girl” (1995) 改写《利达与天鹅》:安吉拉·卡特的《魔法玩具店》(1967)、洛娜·克罗泽的《纯真的形式》(1985)和《天鹅女孩》(1995)的生态女性主义分析

European journal of literature, culture and the environment Pub Date : 2018-10-24 DOI: 10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.2.2289

Maricel Oró-Piqueras, Núria Mina-Riera

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Credits 9.1 // Créditos 9.1 学分9.1 //学分9.1

European journal of literature, culture and the environment Pub Date : 2018-04-28 DOI: 10.37536/ecozona.2018.9.1.2482

Irene Sanz Alonso

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