Ursula Kluwick
Biographic Data
| ID | 6413618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ursula Kluwick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ursula |
| FAMILY NAME | Kluwick |
| SIGNATURE | KLUWICK U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7769-6307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Haunted borders: Visualising the spectral child refugee’s Mediterranean crossings in contemporary graphic narratives
This article discusses the representation of child refugees in graphic narratives about clandestine crossings of the Mediterranean Sea. Bringing together perspectives from the blue humanities and children’s literature studies, we explore how depictions of aquatic geographies of flight shape constructions of childhood in two texts with a humanitarian agenda written in the wake of Alan Kurdi’s death in 2015: Khaled Hosseini’s Sea Prayer (2017/18) a…
The global deluge: Floods, diluvian imagery, and aquatic language in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Gun Island
This article reappraises the potential of realism with respect to the representation of climate change through an analysis of the figure of the flood in what I term Anthropocene water fictions. The article draws on Amitav Ghosh’s nonfictional The Great Derangement (2016) together with his novels The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun Island (2019), published before and after The Great Derangement, respectively. I argue that through their development of a…
Aquatic Matter: Water in Victorian Fiction
This essay looks at water in Victorian fiction and argues that it is important not just as motif or symbol—which is how literary criticism has traditionally approached it—but as a metamorphic substance. I propose a material ecocritical framework in order to conceptualise water as literary matter, and I analyse selected passages from four canonical Victorian novels through a focus on aquatic materialisation and transformation. I argue that through…
Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littoral Space
Shorelines: Littoral Landscapes in the Poetry of Michael Longley and Robert Minhinnick
Talking About Climate Change
This article examines the issue of climate change in the context of ecocriticism. It analyzes some of the narrative forms employed in the mediation of climate change science, focusing on those used by mediators who are not themselves scientists in the transmission of scientific information to a nonspecialist readership or audience. It reviews four relevant works that combine the communication of scientific theories and facts with pedagogical and …
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Talking About Climate Change
This article examines the issue of climate change in the context of ecocriticism. It analyzes some of the narrative forms employed in the mediation of climate change science, focusing on those used by mediators who are not themselves scientists in the transmission of scientific information to a nonspecialist readership or audience. It reviews four relevant works that combine the communication of scientific theories and facts with pedagogical and …
Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littoral Space
Shorelines: Littoral Landscapes in the Poetry of Michael Longley and Robert Minhinnick
Aquatic Matter: Water in Victorian Fiction
This essay looks at water in Victorian fiction and argues that it is important not just as motif or symbol—which is how literary criticism has traditionally approached it—but as a metamorphic substance. I propose a material ecocritical framework in order to conceptualise water as literary matter, and I analyse selected passages from four canonical Victorian novels through a focus on aquatic materialisation and transformation. I argue that through…
The global deluge: Floods, diluvian imagery, and aquatic language in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Gun Island
This article reappraises the potential of realism with respect to the representation of climate change through an analysis of the figure of the flood in what I term Anthropocene water fictions. The article draws on Amitav Ghosh’s nonfictional The Great Derangement (2016) together with his novels The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun Island (2019), published before and after The Great Derangement, respectively. I argue that through their development of a…
Haunted borders: Visualising the spectral child refugee’s Mediterranean crossings in contemporary graphic narratives
This article discusses the representation of child refugees in graphic narratives about clandestine crossings of the Mediterranean Sea. Bringing together perspectives from the blue humanities and children’s literature studies, we explore how depictions of aquatic geographies of flight shape constructions of childhood in two texts with a humanitarian agenda written in the wake of Alan Kurdi’s death in 2015: Khaled Hosseini’s Sea Prayer (2017/18) a…
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