The Noah myth in twenty-first-century cli-fi novels : rewritings from a drowning world / Helen E Mundler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mundler, Helen E. (Helen Esther), author.

Series:

Studies in English and American literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes in literature.

English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Floods in literature.

Ecocriticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

132 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2022.

Summary:

"With the rise of concern about global warming in recent years, climate-change fiction, or clifi, has become increasingly important both as a publishing phenomenon and as an area of academic study and research. Flood narratives have become a subsection of clifi in their own right. This book proposes new readings of four recent rewritings of the Noah myth, Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich, Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy, When the Floods Came by Clare Morrall, and The Flood by Maggie Gee. Helen E. Mundler's book takes into account the wealth of criticism that has appeared on these texts in recent years, acknowledging important contributions from critics including Adam Trexler, Adeline Johns-Putra, and Astrid Bracke. However, her book's strength is that it takes a new approach, going beyond the topicality of the texts and treating them not just as ideological statements but giving them their due as literary artifacts. And while the importance of climate change is beyond debate, this book takes a more balanced approach that places it within a wider context of the multiple crises of the Anthropocene"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

An Odd Sort of Cli-Fi? Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow

"Hadn't mankind done it before-started from scratch?" Reinterpreting Visions of Past and Future in Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy

Watering Down? Clare Morrall's When the Floods Came

The Archive and After: A Kaleidoscopic Reading of Maggie Gee's The Flood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Mundler, Helen E. Noah myth in twenty-first-century cli-fi novels

ISBN:

9781640141315

1640141316

OCLC:

1340412191