1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911088517303321

Autore

Dederichs Natalie <p>Natalie Dederichs, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Deutschland </p>

Titolo

Atmosfears: The Uncanny Climate of Contemporary Ecofiction / Natalie Dederichs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2023

ISBN

9783839465875

3839465877

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages)

Collana

Critical Futures

Disciplina

813.6

Soggetti

Ecocriticism

Atmospheres

Literature

Climate Change

Ecogothic

Nature

American Studies

British Studies

Ecology

Literary Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. There is Something in the Air -- 2.1 Towards an Aesthetics of Literary Atmospheres -- 2.1.1 In the Presence of Absence: The Atmospheric Experience -- 2.1.2 Literary Spheres: Text, Contact, and the Reader -- 2.2 Material Ethics and the Affective Agency of Atmospheres -- 2.3 Gothic Nature and Uncanny Atmospheres -- 2.4 Entering a New Dark Age: Atmospheric Re(lation)ality and the Anthropocene Imagination -- 3. Being Polluted in the Global Garb-Age -- 3.1 Posthuman, Post-Nature, and Lit(t)erature -- 3.1.1 "Nothingness haunts being": Experiences on the Threshold between Toxic Spaces and the Self in Glister -- 3.1.2 "Clustering out like fungi": Liminal Modes of Being in Marrow Island -- 3.2 Making Sense of Embodied Permeability -- 4.



Reading Matters, Material Readings -- 4.1 Weird Terroirs and Other Terrors -- 4.2 Traces of Atmospheric Agency -- 4.3 Atmospheric Agency of Literary Traces -- 5. Going Glocal -- 5.1 Glocal Points of Access -- 5.2 Ambient Literature and the Storying in and of Spacetime -- 5.3 Where to Read from Here: Duncan Speakman's It Must Have Been Dark By Then -- 6. Conclusion -- 7. Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

We live in a critical moment in history, often called the »Anthropocene«, that is defined by unprecedented scales of uncertainty. Natalie Dederichs draws on insights from the new materialisms about the entangled nature of planetary existence and combines them with approaches to aesthetics from fields as diverse as reader-response criticism, phenomenology, Gothic and media studies. She introduces a poetics of atmospheric re(lation)ality as a necessary component of any ecological engagement with fiction that fully embraces literary encounters with the inaccessible and elusive as expressed in uncanny atmospheric reading experiences.

Besprochen in: https://yaleclimateconnections.org, 14.09.2023, Michael Svoboda MEDIENwissenschaft, 2 (2025), Marco Rognini

»Keenly aware of the difficulty of making statements ›about the actual ethical impact‹ of her chosen texts, her propositions for their ›affective affordances‹ are well argued and quite refreshing in that she makes a coherent case for the intrinsic value of literature and the study of it in times of anthropogenic climate change.«



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911143145903321

Autore

Barrett David M. <1951->

Titolo

Blind over Cuba : the photo gap and the missile crisis / / David M. Barrett & Max Holland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station [Tex.], : Texas A&M University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-58424-7

9786613896698

1-60344-772-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Foreign relations and the presidency ; ; no. 11

Altri autori (Persone)

HollandMax

Disciplina

973.922

Soggetti

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Intelligence service - Political aspects - United States

Executive-legislative relations - United States

National security - Political aspects - United States

United States Politics and government 1961-1963

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The making of a "photo gap": August 29 to October 14, 1962 -- Obscuring the photo gap -- The struggle over the postmortems -- Stonewalling the House -- The Senate steps in -- Tensions within the Kennedy administration: fashioning a unified story -- End of the trail: the "interim" report -- The costs of managed history -- Appendix: a historiography of the photo gap, 1963-2011.

Sommario/riassunto

In the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, questions persisted about how the potential cataclysm had been allowed to develop. A subsequent congressional investigation focused on what came to be known as the "photo gap": five weeks during which intelligence-gathering flights over Cuba had been attenuated.  In Blind over Cuba, David M. Barrett and Max Holland challenge the popular perception of the Kennedy administration's handling of the Soviet Union's surreptitious deployment of missiles in the Western Hemisphere. Rather than epitomizing it as a masterpiece of crisis man