%0 Journal Article 
%A Goodbody, Axel Howarth
%T Melting ice and the paradoxes of Zeno: didactic impulses and aesthetic distanciation in German climate change fiction
%D 2013
%@ 2171-9594
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20297
%X Although
global
warming
has
been
a
topic
of
American
and
British
popular
fiction
since
the
1980s,
its
literary
representation
has
only
recently
become
an
object
of
academic
enquiry.
Perhaps
a
score
of
German
novels
on
the
subject
have
also
appeared,
and
critical
analysis
of
these
is
now
called
for.
Following
a
general
outline
of
the
socio-­‐political,
philosophical,
and
ethical
issues
which
climate
change
raises,
and
of
the
particular
aesthetic
challenges
which
writing
about
global
warming
poses,
Ilija
Trojanow’s
EisTau
(Melting
Ice,
2011)
serves
as
a
basis
for
discussion
of
the
tensions
between
confessional
and
didactic
impulses
on
the
one
hand,
and
recognition
of
the
need
for
an
aesthetic
facilitating
detachment
on
the
other.

%K Climate change
%K Cambio climático
%K German literature
%K Literatura alemana
%K Ilija Trojanow
%K EisTau
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Medio ambiente
%K Environmental science
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala