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Narrating crisis: the stories we tell about floods – Astrid Bracke

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Reads Writes. Teaches. Climate Crisis and the 21st-century British Novel. Ecocriticism and the Contemporary British Novel. Books I read in 2015. Books I read in 2016. What I’m reading in 2017. In the classroom (blog). Narrating crisis: the stories we tell about floods. June 16, 2016. February 4, 2017. I have recently become fascinated by flood narratives. Part of that, perhaps, has to do with growing up on a (former) island on which the memory of the 1953 North Sea flood. When the Floods Came. This file ...

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The books I read in 2015 – Astrid Bracke

https://astridbracke.com/2016/01/04/all-the-books-i-read-last-year

Reads Writes. Teaches. Climate Crisis and the 21st-century British Novel. Ecocriticism and the Contemporary British Novel. Books I read in 2015. Books I read in 2016. What I’m reading in 2017. In the classroom (blog). The books I read in 2015. January 4, 2016. February 4, 2017. I read a lot. I can relate to what Zadie Smith says in her piece on being addicted to reading. Can I really not manage a brief subway ride without textual support? Since I keep track of when I finish a book, I can also tell when I...

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New nature writing – Astrid Bracke

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Reads Writes. Teaches. Climate Crisis and the 21st-century British Novel. Ecocriticism and the Contemporary British Novel. Books I read in 2015. Books I read in 2016. What I’m reading in 2017. In the classroom (blog). Category: New nature writing. Seeing the Human in Nature in New British Nature Writing. October 2, 2015. February 4, 2017. Finding a Shape to Write About Nature. September 18, 2015. February 4, 2017. Finding the Wild Nearby in New British Nature Writing. January 4, 2015. February 4, 2017.

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Seeing the Human in Nature in New British Nature Writing – Astrid Bracke

https://astridbracke.com/2015/10/02/seeing-the-human-in-nature-in-new-british-nature-writing

Reads Writes. Teaches. Climate Crisis and the 21st-century British Novel. Ecocriticism and the Contemporary British Novel. Books I read in 2015. Books I read in 2016. What I’m reading in 2017. In the classroom (blog). Seeing the Human in Nature in New British Nature Writing. October 2, 2015. February 4, 2017. In my previous post. I wrote about form as an important part. And Charles Rangeley-Wilson’s. Nse, doesn’t exist. 8211; to record the sound of the river. When he listens to it later he hears the ...

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On the absence of climate fiction in Dutch literature – Astrid Bracke

https://astridbracke.com/2016/10/28/on-the-absence-of-climate-fiction-in-dutch-literature

Reads Writes. Teaches. Climate Crisis and the 21st-century British Novel. Ecocriticism and the Contemporary British Novel. Books I read in 2015. Books I read in 2016. What I’m reading in 2017. In the classroom (blog). On the absence of climate fiction in Dutch literature. October 28, 2016. February 4, 2017. For a long time I barely read Dutch literature. As a scholar of British literature, I read. In a Dutch novel. The result of my search is this paper. Narrating crisis: the stories we tell about floods.

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Ecocriticism – Astrid Bracke

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Reads Writes. Teaches. Climate Crisis and the 21st-century British Novel. Ecocriticism and the Contemporary British Novel. Books I read in 2015. Books I read in 2016. What I’m reading in 2017. In the classroom (blog). Talk on climate crisis narratives (OSL Ravenstein seminar on ecocriticism). January 27, 2017. February 4, 2017. Narrating crisis: the stories we tell about floods. June 16, 2016. February 4, 2017. 8220;Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain” – Christmas songs in the Anthropocene. I'm fascina...

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Climate Change and the 21st-century British Novel – Astrid Bracke

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Reads Writes. Teaches. Climate Crisis and the 21st-century British Novel. Ecocriticism and the Contemporary British Novel. Books I read in 2015. Books I read in 2016. What I’m reading in 2017. In the classroom (blog). Climate Change and the 21st-century British Novel. Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. Climate Change and the 21st-century British Novel. The authors and texts discussed in. Climate Change and the 21st-century British Novel. Are Sarah Hall’s. 2007), Melissa Harrison’s. 2008), Amy Sackv...

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The future isn’t hot and dry, it’s wet (at least in British climate change novels) – Astrid Bracke

https://astridbracke.com/2016/03/01/the-future-isnt-hot-and-dry-its-wet-at-least-in-british-climate-change-novels

Reads Writes. Teaches. Climate Crisis and the 21st-century British Novel. Ecocriticism and the Contemporary British Novel. Books I read in 2015. Books I read in 2016. What I’m reading in 2017. In the classroom (blog). The future isn’t hot and dry, it’s wet (at least in British climate change novels). March 1, 2016. March 1, 2016. Show a dry world, uninhabitable because of a lack of rain and soil erosion. Space for the river project. This attitude is a spin on traditional Dutch perspectives of conquering ...

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Astrid Bracke – Astrid Bracke

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Reads Writes. Teaches. Climate Crisis and the 21st-century British Novel. Ecocriticism and the Contemporary British Novel. Books I read in 2015. Books I read in 2016. What I’m reading in 2017. In the classroom (blog). A defence of storytelling: John Burnside’s Ashland and Vine and the visual arts. March 1, 2017. February 4, 2017. February 5, 2017. Talk on climate crisis narratives (OSL Ravenstein seminar on ecocriticism). January 27, 2017. February 4, 2017. In January 2017 I gave a talk for the OSL Raven...