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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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