Focusing on the evolution of unnatural narrative studies, this collection delves into ideologically significant areas such as feminism and postcolonialism. It engages with critical debates in narrative theory, exploring themes like affect, immersion, and character theory. The book also extends antimimetic perspectives to diverse fields, including autobiography and graphic narratives. Featuring contributions from both established and emerging scholars, it aims to deepen the understanding of narrative and push the boundaries of narrative theory.
Climate change and the apocalypse are frequently associated in the popular imagination of the twenty-first century. This collection of essays brings together climatologists, theologians, historians, literary scholars, and philosophers to address and critically assess this association. The contributing authors are concerned, among other things, with the relation between cultural and scientific discourses on climate change; the role of apocalyptic images and narratives in representing environmental issues; and the tension between reality and fiction in apocalyptic representations of catastrophes. By focusing on how figures in fictional texts interact with their environment and deal with the consequences of climate change, this volume foregrounds the broader social and cultural function of apocalyptic narratives of climate change. By evoking a sense of collective human destiny in the face of the ultimate catastrophe, apocalyptic narratives have both cautionary and inspirational functions. Determining the extent to which such narratives square with scientific knowledge of climate change is one of the main aims of this book.
