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The Noah myth in twenty-first-century cli-fi novels : rewritings from a drowning world

Mundler, Helen E. (Helen Esther), author

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\"With the rise of concern about global warming in recent years, climate-change fiction, or clifi, has become increasingly important both as a publishing phenomenon and as an area of academic study and research. Flood narratives have become a subsection of clifi in their own right. This book proposes new readings of four recent rewritings of the Noah myth, Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich, Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy, When the Floods Came by Clare Morrall, and The Flood by Maggie Gee. Helen E. Mundler's book takes into account the wealth of criticism that has appeared on these texts in recent years, acknowledging important contributions from critics including Adam Trexler, Adeline Johns-Putra, and Astrid Bracke. However, her book's strength is that it takes a new approach, going beyond the topicality of the texts and treating them not just as ideological statements but giving them their due as literary artifacts. And while the importance of climate change is beyond debate, this book takes a more balanced approach that places it within a wider context of the multiple crises of the Anthropocene\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Camden House
• Subject: Climatic changes in literature. / English fiction 21st century History and criticism. / American fiction 21st century History and criticism. / Floods in literature. / Ecocriticism.
• ISBN: 9781640141315

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR830.C585 M86 2022	1	BOOK	GENERAL