<b>Precautionary Readings</b> // Lecturas cautelares

Authors

  • Karsten Levihn-Kutzler Institut fuer England- und Amerikastudien Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1588

Abstract

      Review essay of Sylvia Mayer and Alexa Weik von Mossner's The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture and Molly Wallace's Risk Criticism: Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty.

 

Resumen

      Ensayo reseña de The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture de Sylvia Mayer y Alexa Weik von Mossner, y de Risk Criticism: Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty de Molly Wallace.

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Author Biography

Karsten Levihn-Kutzler, Institut fuer England- und Amerikastudien Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main

Karsten Levihn-Kutzler is a research assistant at Goethe-University Frankfurt, where he teaches postcolonial Anglophone literatures. He is currently completing a PhD-thesis entitled “Writing Global Risk: Manufactured Uncertainty and the Imagination of Globality in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction”. His research interests are Contemporary Anglophone Literatures, the relation of literature and globalization, postcolonial theory, and environmental criticism.

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Published

2017-10-31

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2017): Green Computer and Video Games

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Book Reviews

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