Climate Lyricism / Min Song.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Song, Min, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Min Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that foregrounds how literature, poetry, and essays help us to better grapple with our everyday encounters with climate change."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Practice of Sustaining Attention to Climate Change

Scope

hat Is Denial? Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Teju Cole's Open City, and Sally Wen Mao's "Occidentalism"

Why Revive the Lyric? Claudia Rankine's Citizen and Craig Santos Perez's "Love in a Time of Climate Change"

Why Stay with Bad Feelings? Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic and Tommy Pico's IRL

How Should I Live? Inattention and Everyday-Life Projects

Breath

What's Wrong with Narrative? The Promises and Disappointments of Climate Fiction

Where Are We Now? Scalar Variance, Persistence, Swing, and David Bowie

Urgency

The Scale of the Everyday, Part 1: The Keeling Curve, Frank O'Hara, and Bernadette

Mayer

The Scale of the Everyday, Part 2: Ada Limo̹n, Tommy Pico, and Solmaz Sharif

The Global Novel Imagines the Afterlife: George Saunders, J. M. Coetzee, and Han Kang

The Foreign Present-Who Are We to Each Other?.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4780-2235-3