This collection of essays seeks to combine narratological analyses with an investigation of the ideological ramifications of the use of narrative strategies. As the title indicates, the overarching question asked here is how to do things with narrative. The essays collected here do not posit any intrinsic or stable connection between narrative techniques, on the one hand, and world views, on the other. Instead, the articles demonstrate that world views are always expressed through specific formal strategies. This insight leads to the question of why these particular techniques (rather than...
This collection of essays seeks to combine narratological analyses with an investigation of the ideological ramifications of the use of narrative s...
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...
Climate change and the apocalypse are frequently associated in the popular imagination of the twenty-first century. This collection of essays brings t...
