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Dissertation
Climatic Arrhythmias: Global Warming, Literary Form, and Environmental Time
2017
Overview
While climate change has been most frequently measured and symbolized through increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and rising sea levels, this dissertation investigates how global warming is also perceived through shifting environmental temporalities. As the timing of migrations, monsoons, ice melt, and blooming periods shift, climate change alters the annual rhythms characterizing environments across the globe. As environmental time becomes disordered—as seasons creep forward and glacial ablation accelerates—climate change produces what I term climatic arrhythmias: environmental pulses experienced as disturbingly premature or delayed, perhaps even absent. If—as literary critics from Northrop Frye to Lawrence Buell have argued—literary forms are bound to seasonal cycles and rhythms, then climate change will have aesthetic as well as ecological repercussions. Climatic rhythms structure seasonally-organized environmental prose, literary almanacs, travel narratives, and landscape documentaries: the climate undergirds a wide range of literary and artistic forms. Drawing on literary and environmental projects—including phenological writing at Walden Pond, a novella depicting extended drought in Chennai, time-lapse photography of Arctic glaciers, and an Australian novel featuring a magical realist migration of climate change refugees and birds—I examine how literature documents and responds to the disrupted temporal ecologies of the Anthropocene. By analyzing contemporary climate science and literary form in tandem, my research catalogues how climatic arrhythmias register phenomenologically and affectively as well as statistically, producing an embodied, connotative account of the globe’s shifting rhythms.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
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ISBN
9798691210402
