Lehrende/r: Sandra Dinter
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar/Proseminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: BS/ELC 123
Inhalt: Climate change constitutes one of the most urgent and hotly debated issues of our time. Not least since Donald J. Trump’s recent decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, it has once again hit the headlines around the globe and continues to cause outrage among activists and citizens alike. Climate change is not only subject to scientific, political and economic discourses, but it has equally featured in numerous contemporary novels, poems, films and plays. Against this backdrop, this seminar explores the vibrant trend of climate change fiction (‘cli-fy’) in Anglophone literature and culture and considers how fiction reflects, problematises and satirises human-made pollution, climate change and its future consequences. Our seminar will take off with an introduction to theoretical perspectives on climate change from the fields of sociology and ecocriticism, before we then discuss different literary responses to it. These novels will be among the different works we will analyse in class: Sacie Loyd’s The Carbon Diaries (2015) Ian McEwan’s Solar (2010) Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2008)
