25 articles in this issue
Editorial for Ecozon@ 11.1.
Solvejg Nitzke
Introduction.
Johannes Ungelenk
This article looks at Émile Zola’s novel cycle Les Rougon-Macquart and argues that it describes its subject, the Second Empire, as a warming climate tending toward climate catastrophe. Zola’s affinity to the notion of c... see more
Urs Buettner
The paper reads Rolands Barthes’ considerations on weather and climate in his last lecture cycle La Préparation du Roman by contextualizing its brief remarks with his previous discussions on this topic. Barthes develops a ph... see more
Emanuel Herold
Current political debates on climate are permeated by apocalyptical thinking. Movements like Fridays for Future and Exitinction Rebellion, too, are shaped by this tradition—positive visions, on the other hand, utopian images... see more
Brad Tabas
This text examines the effects of climate change on cultural ideas regarding the colonization of space. More specifically, this paper explores the ways which the looming danger of climate catastrophe has fueled the growth of... see more
Michael Boyden
This article offers an exploratory semantic analysis of the concept of climate through the lens of Reinhart Koselleck’s theory of historical semantics. After discussing reasons for its absence in Koselleck’s own scholarly in... see more
Christoph Ransmayr’s 2006 novel Der fliegende Berg and Thomas Glavinic’s Das größere Wunder (published in 2013) confront very different ideas of mountaineering. Glavinic’s protagonist Jonas joins a commercial expedition to summit the world’s highest mount... see more
Judith Rauscher
This article analyzes Sharon Doubiago’s American long poem Hard Country (1982) from the joined perspectives of ecocriticism and mobility studies. It argues that Hard Country is a proletarian eco-epic that rethinks human-natu... see more
Nancy Gates Madsen
Gioconda Belli’s futuristic novel Waslala reveals the many tensions that arise when one explores human rights within a context of planetary ecological crisis. While the novel criticizes human exploitation of natural resource... see more
J. Sebastián Figueroa
Focusing on Guzmán's essay films Nostalgia de la luz (2010) and El botón de nácar (2015), in this article I argue that the ambiguity between reference and abstraction that pervades the visual representation of landscape in l... see more
Damiano Benvegnù
This is the editorial for the Creative Writing and Arts of Ecozon@ 11.1 (Spring 2020).
Berndnaut Smilde
The Nimbus works present a transitory moment of presence in a specific location. They can be interpreted as a sign of loss or becoming, or just as a a fragment from a classical painting. People have always had a strong metap... see more
Alex Dreppec
Three English poems and one in German - ecopoetry - using chemical element symbols for the complete text and to symbolize pollution and climate change.
Karen Poppy
Poems.
Stephanie Gage
“More Virulent than Disease” is a chapter from the historical novel, Painted Butterflies. This excerpt is written through the voice of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852 – 1934), Nobel Prize Win... see more
Matthias Klestil
Review essay.
Katie Frances Ritson
Book review.
Giulia Champion
Leonardo Nolé
Jessica Maufort
Basak Agin
Credits 11.1