Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories from Antiquity to the Anthropocene

Christopher Schliephake, Evi Zemanek (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

338 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2114-4 (ISBN)

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The volume examines forms and functions of fictional and factual anticipatory environmental (hi)stories from antiquity to the Anthropocene, offering a diachronic as well as cross-cultural perspective on how different authors and societies have imagined their respective future environments.

Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories from Antiquity to the Anthropocene studies the interplay of environmental perception and the way societies throughout history have imagined the future state of “nature” and the environments in which coming generations would live. What sorts of knowledge were and are involved in outlining future environments? What kinds of texts and narrative strategies were and are developed and modified over time? How did and do scenarios and narratives of the past shape (hi)stories of the future? This book answers these questions from a diachronic as well as a cross-cultural perspective. By looking at a diverse range of historical evidence that transcends stereotypical utopian and dystopian visions and allows for nuanced insights beyond the dichotomous reservoir of pastoral motifs and apocalyptic narratives, the contributors illustrate the multifaceted character of environmental anticipation across the ages.

Christopher Schliephake is senior lecturer in ancient history at the University of Augsburg. Evi Zemanek is full professor of comparative media studies at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies, University of Freiburg.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Anticipating Environmental Futures Beyond Pastoral and Apocalyptic Visions
Christopher Schliephake and Evi Zemanek

Part I. Dialogues Between Times and Places
Chapter 1. Experience and Expectations: Hesiod on Work, Justice, and Environment
Astrid Möller
Chapter 2. Ancient Geographies of Health and Environmental Acumen: An Anticipatory Narrative in Galen (Method of Healing V, 12)
Caroline Petit
Chapter 3. The Past Is a Foreign Environment: Some Observations on Roman Wetland Drainage in Ancient and Modern Discourse
Jasmin Hettinger
Chapter 4. Future Imperfect in Edmund Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender (1579)
Diana G. Barnes
Chapter 5. Retrospective Prophecy in Contemporary Maya Literature: Chim Bacab’s Flower of Memory
Charles M. Pigott

Part II. Extinction and Conservation
Chapter 6. Feeling Like a Species: The Environmental Future in Lucretius
Richard Hutchins
Chapter 7. Anticipating Multispecies Thinking in Plutarch’s Animal Treatises
Christophe

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	Environment and Society
Co-Autor	Diana G. Barnes, Helga G. Braunbeck, Gregory J. Dehler
Zusatzinfo	7 b/w illustrations;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-6669-2114-9 / 1666921149
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-2114-4 / 9781666921144
Zustand	Neuware