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  1. Assessments of the Urban Experience: Toni Morrison's Jazz and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 1998

  2. Literature and Environmental Ethical Criticism: Sarah Orne Jewett's New England Texts
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2007

    The interest in ethical literary criticism which re-emerged in the 1990s is of particular relevance to the field of ecologically oriented literary criticism. Motivated by a concern for the environment and by the question of how to live an... mehr

     

    The interest in ethical literary criticism which re-emerged in the 1990s is of particular relevance to the field of ecologically oriented literary criticism. Motivated by a concern for the environment and by the question of how to live an environmentally sound life, its basic goal can be defined as creating knowledge that promotes an environmental ethical stance that in turn triggers processes of environmentally benign social and cultural transformation. The claim – made by moral philosophers and literary critics such as Charles Taylor, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Rorty and David Parker – that literary texts can be regarded as a specific mode of moral inquiry because of the imaginative range and formal richness of their language bears a high degree of importance for ecologically oriented literary scholarship. It supports the idea that literary texts which address morally relevant aspects of the human-nature relationship are indispensable sources for a more comprehensive understanding of the human moral experience – more comprehensive in the sense of extending the moral universe towards the inclusion of parts of nonhuman nature or to non-human nature as a whole. Following a brief introduction into key issues of current ethical literary criticism and into the field of environmental ethics, this essay explores New England regionalist texts by Sarah Orne Jewett as sites of inquiry into environmentally relevant moral issues. Jewett's texts were part of the emergence of American environmentalism in the second half of the nineteenth century. They contributed to the environmentalist discourse as it developed in particular in the activities and publications of movements such as the conservation, preservation and humane movements. Analysis of the environmental ethical dimension of her texts reveals that the sources of the contemporary philosophical discipline of environmental ethics can be understood as reaching far back into literary history. ; Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer ...

     
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  3. Science in the World Risk Society: Risk, the Novel, and Global Climate Change
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2016

    Anthropogenic climate change constitutes one of the major global risks of our time. In spite of widespread scientific consensus, however, climate change discourse is still characterized by controversy. This controversy reflects both a variety of... mehr

     

    Anthropogenic climate change constitutes one of the major global risks of our time. In spite of widespread scientific consensus, however, climate change discourse is still characterized by controversy. This controversy reflects both a variety of conflicting interests that frame the perception of climate change and a fundamental trend in our age of reflexive modernity: an increased awareness of scientific uncertainty and a loss of trust in scientific authority. It also defines our current cultural moment as paradoxical: societies worldwide are simultaneously characterized by such increased awareness of scientific uncertainty and by reliance on scientific knowledge to a historically unprecedented degree. According to Ulrich Beck, this paradox in part defines what he conceived of as a new manifestation of modern society, the ‘world risk society.’ This essay addresses the fictional contribution to the risk discourse of global climate change. After introducing the role of science in the world risk society and the climate change novel as a fictional risk narrative, it discusses how Susan M. Gaines’ Carbon Dreams (2001) and Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior (2012) engage with this paradox, how they explore the complex socioeconomic, political, and cultural significance of climate science and the role and experience of climate scientists. ; Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. / This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.

     
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  4. From an Ethics of Proximity to an Ethics of Connectivity: Risk, Mobility, and Deterritorialization in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2016

    This essay examines how mobility, settler colonial structures of invasion, and invasive environmental practices produce a settler colonial eco-logic of mobility, which the documentary ‘Into America: The Ancestor’s Land’ (2012) by Nadine Zacharias and... mehr

     

    This essay examines how mobility, settler colonial structures of invasion, and invasive environmental practices produce a settler colonial eco-logic of mobility, which the documentary ‘Into America: The Ancestor’s Land’ (2012) by Nadine Zacharias and Angelo Baca (Navajo/Hopi) both displays and disrupts. The film documents the expulsion of Helen Yellowman, Angelo’s grandmother, and her family from their land in the 1950s in connection to environmental pollution and disregard of Navajo traditions. Furthermore, it places this case within a history of discursive and physical removals of Indigenous peoples that follow a settler colonial logic of elimination. Indigenous removal in turn is shown to be predicated on a dominant version of settler mobility centered on invading, acquiring, exploiting land—and abandoning it in pursuit of new land. The film’s own journey eastward, counter to the settlers’ westward invasion, uncovers the history of removal, recovers relationships to the land and environment rooted in Indigenous thought and practices, and thus troubles what Mishuana Goeman terms a “settler grammar of place.” It does so specifically by using the visual grammar of film to reframe conventional signifiers of mobility as specifically Indigenous: the road movie genre, the car, the road, and the map. To this end, the film uses a map that recasts U.S. regions as Indigenous national territories defined by distinct natural environments, suggesting a responsibility to the land based in Indigenous sovereignty. As it challenges unmarked settler formations and their destructive environmental practices, ‘Into America’ indicates alternative kinds of mobility on the land that interrupt settler colonial ecologics, and it highlights the interlocking aspects of environmental politics and decolonization within Indigenous movements that possess a transnationally unsettling force.

     
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  5. Scale and Speculative Futures in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker and Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312
    Autor*in: Hannah, Matthew; Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2020
    Verlag:  transcript Verlag

  6. Environmental Risk Fiction and Ecocriticism
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2020

    Ecocriticism has been at the forefront of introducing risk theory and risk research to literary and cultural studies. The essay surveys this more recent trend in ecocritical scholarship, which began with the new millennium and has focused on the... mehr

     

    Ecocriticism has been at the forefront of introducing risk theory and risk research to literary and cultural studies. The essay surveys this more recent trend in ecocritical scholarship, which began with the new millennium and has focused on the participation of fictional texts in various environmental risk discourses. The study of risk fiction draws our attention to cultural moments of uncertainty, threat, and instability, to risk scenarios both local and planetary—not least the risk scenarios of the Anthropocene in which species consciousness and ‘planetariness’ have become central issues. The essay reviews how key publications have shed light on the cultural and literary historical relevance of environmental risk and on various issues that are central to ecocriticism. It points out how they have sharpened our sense of both the spatial and temporal dimensions of environmental risk and environmental crisis, introduced new categories of ecocritical analysis, contributed to clarifying some of the field’s major conceptual premises, and added a new approach to genre discussions, in particular relating to fiction engaging with global anthropogenic climate change.

     
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    DDC Klassifikation: Literatur und Rhetorik (800); Amerikanische Literatur in in Englisch (810); Geschichte der Britischen Inseln (941); Geschichte Neuseelands (993)
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  7. The Traveller as Topographer: Jonathan Raban’s Bad Land: An American Romance
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2000
    Verlag:  WvT

  8. Oil Fiction as Risk Fiction: Inhabiting Risk in Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2019

    This essay discusses Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit as environmental risk narrative. The novel contributes to the literary history of oil in the United States by exploring from a risk perspective an infamous period of Native American history in the 1920s,... mehr

     

    This essay discusses Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit as environmental risk narrative. The novel contributes to the literary history of oil in the United States by exploring from a risk perspective an infamous period of Native American history in the 1920s, the catastrophic events that developed from the discovery of oil in Northern Oklahoma’s ‘Indian Territory.’ Reading Mean Spirit as risk narrative provides a specific way of knowing about oil, about its economic, social, and cultural meanings. The novel’s focus on how oil-related risks shape its characters’ lives shows that oil cultures must be regarded as risk cultures in which various risks unfold their shaping power – risks that are voluntarily taken and risks that must involuntarily be endured. Through its focus on risk, Mean Spirit draws attention to the fact that uncertainty and instability have always marked the cultural history of oil in the United States.

     
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    Schlagworte: americanstudies; environmentalstudies; indigenousstudies; literarystudies
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  9. “Dwelling in Crisis”: Terrorist and Environmental Risk Scenarios in the Post-9/11 Novel
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Peter Lang

  10. The Rhetoric of Toxic Discourse: The Ironic Mode in John Cheever’s Oh What A Paradise It Seems
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2007
    Verlag:  Peter Lang

  11. World Risk Society and Ecoglobalism: Risk, Literature, and the Anthropocene
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  DeGruyter

    Since its institutionalization in the 1990s, ecocriticism has been defined as providing a critical response to ‘environmental crisis,’ thereby identifying the present as a transitional period characterized by a sense of threat and uncertainty. The... mehr

     

    Since its institutionalization in the 1990s, ecocriticism has been defined as providing a critical response to ‘environmental crisis,’ thereby identifying the present as a transitional period characterized by a sense of threat and uncertainty. The field has only recently begun to fully engage with another concept that equally responds to environmental threat and uncertainty: the concept of risk. This chapter traces the emergence of risk research within ecocriticism, in particular in its focus on the challenges of global environmental risk. Drawing on sociologist Ulrich Beck’s model of the world risk society and on the concept of the Anthropocene, it shows how literary and cultural studies have begun to contribute to interdisciplinary risk studies by identifying the specific and indispensable contribution of fictional risk narratives to current environmental risk discourses.

     
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  12. Literarische Umwelt-Risikonarrative
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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  13. Risk Narratives: Climate Change, the American Novel, and the World Risk Society
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  Universitätsverlag Winter

  14. Klimawandelroman
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  Böhlau

  15. Literary Studies, Ecofeminism, and Environmentalist Knowledge Production in the Humanities
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2006
    Verlag:  Rodopi

    Based on the premise that the current environmental crisis is, in fact, a cultural crisis the essay delineates why and how the field of literary studies – conceived as a part of cultural studies – can and must contribute to environmentalist efforts.... mehr

     

    Based on the premise that the current environmental crisis is, in fact, a cultural crisis the essay delineates why and how the field of literary studies – conceived as a part of cultural studies – can and must contribute to environmentalist efforts. It opens with observations on the conceptualising and world-shaping power of language and texts, then introduces premises and key categories of the scholarly discipline of ecofeminism, and, finally, in two brief, exemplary analyses of Margaret Atwood’s novels Surfacing and Oryx and Crake, demonstrates in which way an ecofeminist literary and cultural criticism can provide environmentally relevant knowledge.

     
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    Schlagworte: americanstudies; environmentalstudies; genderstudies; literarystudies
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  16. Genre and Environmentalism: Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Speculative Fiction, and the African American Slave Narrative
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  LIT Verlag

  17. Introduction
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  LIT Verlag

  18. Ökologie und Literaturwissenschaft: Eine Einleitung
    Autor*in: Gersdorf, Catrin; Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2005
    Verlag:  Universitätsverlag Winter

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  19. Orientalism in the Melodrama of the Early American Republic: William Munford, Almoran and Hamet
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2006
    Verlag:  Universitätsverlag Winter

  20. Environmentalism and Encounters with the Abject: T. Coraghessan Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2007
    Verlag:  Rodopi

  21. Explorations of the Controversially Real: Risk, the Climate Change Novel, and the Narrative of Anticipation
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Universitätsverlag Winter

  22. Mapping the Environmental Ethical Dimension in Harriet Beecher Stowe's New England Novels
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

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    rowman.com/ISBN/9781611476187/Beyond-Uncle-Tom's-Cabin-Essays-on-the-Writing-of-Harriet-Beecher-Stowe ; Reproduced by permission of Rowman & Littlefield [https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781611476187/Beyond-Uncle-Tom's-Cabin-Essays-on-the-Writing-of-Harriet-Beecher-Stowe] All rights reserved. Please contact the publisher for permission to copy, distribute or reprint.

     
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  23. Assessments of the Urban Experience: Toni Morrison's Jazz and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 1998

  24. Literature and Environmental Ethical Criticism: Sarah Orne Jewett's New England Texts
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2007

    The interest in ethical literary criticism which re-emerged in the 1990s is of particular relevance to the field of ecologically oriented literary criticism. Motivated by a concern for the environment and by the question of how to live an... mehr

     

    The interest in ethical literary criticism which re-emerged in the 1990s is of particular relevance to the field of ecologically oriented literary criticism. Motivated by a concern for the environment and by the question of how to live an environmentally sound life, its basic goal can be defined as creating knowledge that promotes an environmental ethical stance that in turn triggers processes of environmentally benign social and cultural transformation. The claim – made by moral philosophers and literary critics such as Charles Taylor, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Rorty and David Parker – that literary texts can be regarded as a specific mode of moral inquiry because of the imaginative range and formal richness of their language bears a high degree of importance for ecologically oriented literary scholarship. It supports the idea that literary texts which address morally relevant aspects of the human-nature relationship are indispensable sources for a more comprehensive understanding of the human moral experience – more comprehensive in the sense of extending the moral universe towards the inclusion of parts of nonhuman nature or to non-human nature as a whole. Following a brief introduction into key issues of current ethical literary criticism and into the field of environmental ethics, this essay explores New England regionalist texts by Sarah Orne Jewett as sites of inquiry into environmentally relevant moral issues. Jewett's texts were part of the emergence of American environmentalism in the second half of the nineteenth century. They contributed to the environmentalist discourse as it developed in particular in the activities and publications of movements such as the conservation, preservation and humane movements. Analysis of the environmental ethical dimension of her texts reveals that the sources of the contemporary philosophical discipline of environmental ethics can be understood as reaching far back into literary history. ; Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer ...

     
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  25. Science in the World Risk Society: Risk, the Novel, and Global Climate Change
    Autor*in: Mayer, Sylvia
    Erschienen: 2016

    Anthropogenic climate change constitutes one of the major global risks of our time. In spite of widespread scientific consensus, however, climate change discourse is still characterized by controversy. This controversy reflects both a variety of... mehr

     

    Anthropogenic climate change constitutes one of the major global risks of our time. In spite of widespread scientific consensus, however, climate change discourse is still characterized by controversy. This controversy reflects both a variety of conflicting interests that frame the perception of climate change and a fundamental trend in our age of reflexive modernity: an increased awareness of scientific uncertainty and a loss of trust in scientific authority. It also defines our current cultural moment as paradoxical: societies worldwide are simultaneously characterized by such increased awareness of scientific uncertainty and by reliance on scientific knowledge to a historically unprecedented degree. According to Ulrich Beck, this paradox in part defines what he conceived of as a new manifestation of modern society, the ‘world risk society.’ This essay addresses the fictional contribution to the risk discourse of global climate change. After introducing the role of science in the world risk society and the climate change novel as a fictional risk narrative, it discusses how Susan M. Gaines’ Carbon Dreams (2001) and Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior (2012) engage with this paradox, how they explore the complex socioeconomic, political, and cultural significance of climate science and the role and experience of climate scientists. ; Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. / This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.

     
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