Melting Ice and the Paradoxes of Zeno
Didactic Impulses and Aesthetic Distanciation in German Climate Change Fiction // Impulsos didácticos y distancia estética en la ficción alemana sobre el cambio climático
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8095190 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Axel Goodbody (0000-0003-1487-3147, corresponding author), Axel Howarth Goodbody |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 92-102 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ecozon European Journal of Literature Culture and Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2171-9594 • E-ISSN: 2171-9594 |
| Publisher | Universidad de Alcala (PUBLISHER • ES) |
| DOI | 10.37536/ecozona.2013.4.1.502 |
| OpenAlex | W28721430 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Although global warming has been a topic of American and British popular fiction since the 1980s, its literary representation has only recently become an object of academic enquiry. Perhaps a score of German novels on the subject have also appeared, and critical analysis of these is now called for. Following a general outline of the socio-political, philosophical, and ethical issues which climate change raises, and of the particular aesthetic challenges which writing about global warming poses, Ilija Trojanow’s EisTau (Melting Ice, 2011) serves as a basis for discussion of the tensions between confessional and didactic impulses on the one hand, and recognition of the need for an aesthetic facilitating detachment on the other. Resumen Aunque el calentamiento global ha aparecido en la literatura popular americana y británica desde los años 80, su representación literaria no se ha converitdo en objeto de investigación académica hasta recientemente. Quizá una veintena de novelas alemanas sobre el tema también han aparecido, requiriendo así un análisis critico. Siguiendo un resumen general de los asuntos socio-políticos, filosóficos y éticos que el cambio climático ha planteado, y de los desafíos estéticos particulares que surgen al escribir sobre el calentamiento global, la novela EisTau (Melting Ice, 2011) de Ilija Trojanow sirve como base para debatir las tensiones entre los impulsos confesionales y didácticos, por un lado, y sobre el reconocimiento de la necesidad de una estética que facilite el desapego, por otro
Art · German · Humanities · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |