Search

This article discusses Nancy Brysson Morrison's novel The Gowk Storm in relation to grief and the environment. It examines the strategies through which the novel captures and reimagines grief through the merging of human history with the nonhuman temporalities of the environment of the Scottish Highlands. A postcritical reading of Morrison's novel The Gowk Storm reveals that her environmental use of the elegiac form produces non-linear temporalities that contribute to a politics of resistant mourning that may still speak to today's readers and help them navigate the crises and tragedies of the twenty-first century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay explores two principal aspects of The Orchard Keeper (1965), Cormac McCarthy's first published novel. It first examines McCarthy's sensitively realized portrait of the old hermit Uncle Arthur "Ather" Ownby, whose mistakes, family loss, and guilt inspire him to turn to nature, arrive at a new philosophical and spiritual understanding of the cosmos, and defend his green world at a considerable personal cost. Second, an explication of the ominous and rich central symbol of the government tank reveals that McCarthy's preoccupations are with global and far-reaching events, which include the Cold War and the Space Race. Ownby's defiance of the government installation makes him the first in McCarthy's gallery of virtuous characters who strive to uphold morality against the odds and despite ill consequence and the first in McCarthy's memorable succession of prophetic and "gnomic" old men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses existence of weather and environment in Peter Rosegger's forest fictions. It states that Peter Rosegger published two of his best-known stories, "Schriften eines Waldschulmeisters," and "Waldheimat," and mentions that Rosegger's stories must be read against the backdrop of a radical scientific and imaginative reorganization of the world that the stories' characters. It notes significance of contrast between the specialized meteorological and climatological knowledge.

Cormac McCarthy's The Road can be read as part of the burgeoning field of climate fiction. This article examines the way that environmental anxiety manifests in this text not only through the vision of a future earth that has been devastated, but, as I will argue, at a more symbolic and allegorical level through the metaphoric place of vision, sight, and blindness. Interrogating the metaphor of vision is central to considering this text as climate fiction because it positions the human as the chosen witness to the end of the world. This article examines the anthropocentrism at the heart of McCarthy's text, and reflects on the place of the human in broader debates about anthropogenic climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]