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Melting ice and the paradoxes of Zeno: didactic impulses and aesthetic distanciation in German climate change fiction

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Authors
Goodbody, Axel Howarth
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Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20297
ISSN: 2171-9594
Publisher
Universidad de Alcalá
Date
2013-04
Bibliographic citation
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, vol. 4, n. 1 (2013), pp. 92-102
Keywords
Climate change
Cambio climático
German literature
Literatura alemana
Ilija Trojanow
EisTau
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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http://ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/378/683
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Abstract
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.
 
Aunque el calentamiento global ha aparecido en la literatura popular americana y británica desde los años 80, su representación literaria no se ha converitdo en objeto de investigación académica hasta recientemente. Quizá una veintena de novelas alemanas sobre el tema también han aparecido, requiriendo así un análisis critico. Siguiendo un resumen general de los asuntos socio-­‐ políticos, filosóficos y éticos que el cambio climático ha planteado, y de los desafíos estéticos particulares que surgen al escribir sobre el calentamiento global, la novela EisTau (Melting Ice, 2011) de Ilija Trojanow sirve como base para debatir las tensiones entre los impulsos confesionales y didácticos, por un lado, y sobre el reconocimiento de la necesidad de una estética que facilite el desapego, por otro.
 
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