Research Catalog

Title

Climate and literature : reflections of environment / edited by Janet Pérez and Wendell Aycock.

Publication

Lubbock, Tex., USA : Texas Tech University Press, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pérez, Janet.
• Aycock, Wendell M.

Description

x, 134 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

With the rise of a succession of sophisticated approaches that largely disregard literature's traditional role as a mirror of life, climate and other environmental factors have been generally disregarded in the interpretation of literary texts during recent decades. For that reason, it is only fitting that the climatological dimension be re-explored after a forty-year hiatus. "Climate and Literature embraces a significant revision of the original telluric "notions" about the determinist relationship between climate and the attitudes and behavior of literary characters set in particular surroundings. In place of such vague notions, we find within these pages interesting and stimulating examples of true applied science and contemporary literary theory that more often than not treat literary depiction of climate not so much as a reflection of influence of particular geographic environments, but as a powerful symbol for psychological or textural processes undergone by the novels' characters, narrators or readers."-Dr. Thomas Franz, Ohio State University.

Series Statement

Studies in comparative literature, 0899-2193 ; no. 25

Uniform Title

Studies in comparative literature (Lubbock, Tex.) no. 25.

Subject

• Climate in literature
• Weather in literature
• Setting (Literature)

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Writing the bodies of water : the clash of the lasting and the catastrophic in the Odes of Horace / Rosemary M. Nielsen and Robert H. Solomon -- Climate as science and metaphor in the writings of Jehuda Halevi / Stephen T. Newmyer -- Astral and tidal phenomena, earthquake prediction, and The astronomical clock of Juan de Barrenechea / Robert J. Morris -- Zola's uses of climate in The land / Wendell McClendon -- The role of climate in twentieth-century Spanish American fiction / George R. McMurray -- The endless rains of death and desolation in García Márquez's short stories / Clementina R. Adams -- Creating an atmosphere : depiction of climate in the works of Gabriel García Márquez / Gary S. Elbow -- The weather as a story element in four short works from Latin America / Paul Nelson -- Heat, water, and stars in Pedro Páramo / Cida Chase -- Ices everlasting and passions perverted : the physical and moral climate of Puig's anti-utopia / Leonard A. Cheever -- Influence of climate on the cultures of the jungle as perceived by two Latin American novelists / Raquel Romeu -- Climate and identity in the literature of the French Antilles / Jack Jordan -- Afro-Cuban culture, ecology, and climate in La comparsa by Felipe Pichardo Moya / Luis A. Jiménez.

ISBN

0896723542 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^95036736^

OCLC

• 32969127
• SCSB-12034733

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library