Ecocriticism, Genre, and Climate Change: Reading the Utopian Vision of Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital Trilogy
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Johns-Putra, A (2010) Ecocriticism, Genre, and Climate Change: Reading the Utopian Vision of Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital Trilogy English Studies, 91 (7). 744 - 760. ISSN 0013-838X
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2010.518043
Abstract
This paper calls for a rapprochement between ecocriticism and what it often disregards as theory. Specifically, it argues for the relevance of genre theory, which explores the dynamic relations of author, reader, text, and the worlds they inhabit. Texts are locatable within the environment of a given genre; further, generic environments reciprocally shape, structure, and determine our sense of the wider environment. This paper offers a generically inflected reading of Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy, in which the representation of climate change is understood as a complex set of negotiations within the generic space of utopian science fiction. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.
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| Additional Information: | This is an electronic version of an article published as Johns-Putra A (2010). Ecocriticism, Genre, and Climate Change: Reading the Utopian Vision of Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital Trilogy. English Studies 91(7):744-760 27. Available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/nest20/91/7 |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences > English and Languages > English |
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| ID Code: | 728056 |
| Deposited By: | Symplectic Elements |
| Deposited On: | 06 Dec 2012 17:52 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Mar 2013 14:33 |
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