Risk Criticism : Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty /

Risk Criticism : Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty /

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'Risk Criticism: Reading in an Age of Manufactured Uncertainties' is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk that offers an environmental humanities approach to understanding risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. 'Risk Criticism: Reading i...

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Main Author: Wallace, Molly (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Risk-taking (Psychology)
Risk in literature.
Environmental risk assessment.
Ecocriticism.
Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Prise de risque.
Environnement > Évaluation du risque.
Risque dans la litterature.
Critique.
Écocritique.
Risk-Taking
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Will the apocalypse have been now? : literary criticism in an age of global risk
  • The second nuclear age and its wagers : archival reflexions
  • We all live in Bhopal? : staging global risk
  • Discomfort food : analogy and biotechnology
  • Letting plastic have its say; or, plastic's tell
  • The Port Radium paradigm; or, Fukushima in a changing climate
  • Afterword: Writing "the bomb" : inheritances in the anthropocene.

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