In the last 5 years, climate change has emerged as a dominant theme in literature and,
correspondingly, in literary studies. Its popularity in fiction has given rise to the term cli‐fi, or …

The Anthropocene is a concept which challenges the foundations of humanities scholarship
as it is traditionally understood. It calls not only for closer engagement with the natural …

Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment focuses on new research in the Environmental
Humanities, particularly work with a rhetorical or literary dimension. Books in this series …

It's not so difficult, we tell our students, not so difficult that you should despair or forget
dreaming. There are others here in this room and beyond who will gather, humans and non …

How to conceive of an aesthetics of the Anthropocene? Art in the Anthropocene, this article
argues, cannot be limited to thematizing the many different dimensions of the current …

Already in the nineteenth century, German-language writers were contending with the
challenge of imagining and accounting for a planet whose volatility bore little resemblance …

This essay discusses the value of the Anthropocene concept for the environmental
humanities and in particular for the analysis of contemporary environmentally themed …

This dissertation examines an emergent archive of contemporary literary and cultural texts
that engage with the wicked problem of anthropogenic climate change. Following cultural …

This article provides an overview of German ecocriticism. It highlights the reluctance of
literary scholars in Germany to engage in environmentally focused criticism and discusses …

Ecothrillers deal with the mostly invisible and intangible problems of climate change by
searching for better ways of imagining its relations to nature and humanity. Ecothrillers …