Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): Writing Catastrophes: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on the Semantics of Natural and Anthropogenic Disasters

• Editorial 3.1.

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Writing Catastrophes: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Semantics of Natural and Anthropogenic Disasters

• Guest Editor Introduction

  Gabriele Dürbeck

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• The Postcolonial Picaro in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People – Becoming Posthuman through Animal’s Eyes

  Roman Bartosch

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• Popular Science and Apocalyptic Narrative in Frank Schätzing’s The Swarm

  Gabriele Dürbeck

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• Surviving to Tell the Tale: Josef Haslinger’s Phi Phi Island (2007)

  Katharina Gerstenberger

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• Kultivierung der Katastrophe. Untergangsszenarien und Selbstbehauptung in den Literaturen der Schweiz

  Peter Utz

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• A Dirty Hero’s Fight for Clean Energy: Satire, Allegory, and Risk Narrative in Ian McEwan’s Solar

  Evi Zemanek

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• Der Mensch im Katastrophenuniversum. Zum Verhältnis von Historie, Naturgeschichte und Poetik im Frühwerk Arno Schmidts

  Stepan Zbytovsky

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General Section 3.1 Spring 2012

• Material Ecocriticism: Materiality, Agency, and Models of Narrativity

  Serenella Iovino, Serpil Oppermann

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• The Ambivalence of the Gene Trade in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy

  Francisco Saez de Adana

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• La utopía banal: La urbanización, la globalización y lo antibucólico en Últimas noticias del paraíso

  Mac John Wilson

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Creative Writing and Arts

• Poem

  Mario Petrucci

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• Three Poems

  Stuart Cooke

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• Four Poems

  JD Smith

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• Poem

  Dan Thomas-Glass

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Book Reviews

• Book Review: Timothy Clark, The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)

  Astrid Bracke

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• Book Review: Harriet Tarlo, ed., The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2011)

  Isabel Hoving

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• Review Essay: Steps to a Material Ecocriticism. The Recent Literature about the “New Materialisms” and its Impact on Ecocritical Theory

  Serenella Iovino

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• Book Review: Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture, and the Contemporary Indian Novel in English (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

  Christopher McGill

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• Boook Review: Ashton Nichols, Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)

  Richard Pickard

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• Book Review: Bertrand Westphal, Géocritique; réel, fiction, espace, (Paris: Minuit, 2007)

  Eric Prieto

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• Book Review: Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt (eds.), Postcolonial Green. Environmental Politics and World Narratives. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2010)

  Sabine von Mering

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Credits

• Credits 3.1

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