Climate and literature : reflections of environment /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pérez, Janet, Aycock, Wendell M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lubbock, Tex., USA : Texas Tech University Press, [1995]
Series:Studies in comparative literature (Lubbock, Tex.) ; no. 25.
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Table of Contents:
  • Writing the bodies of water : the clash of the lasting and the catastrophic in the Odes of Horace / Rosemary M. Nielsen and Robert H. Solomon
  • Climate as science and metaphor in the writings of Jehuda Halevi / Stephen T. Newmyer
  • Astral and tidal phenomena, earthquake prediction, and The astronomical clock of Juan de Barrenechea / Robert J. Morris
  • Zola's uses of climate in The land / Wendell McClendon
  • The role of climate in twentieth-century Spanish American fiction / George R. McMurray
  • The endless rains of death and desolation in García Márquez's short stories / Clementina R. Adams
  • Creating an atmosphere : depiction of climate in the works of Gabriel García Márquez / Gary S. Elbow
  • The weather as a story element in four short works from Latin America / Paul Nelson
  • Heat, water, and stars in Pedro Páramo / Cida Chase
  • Ices everlasting and passions perverted : the physical and moral climate of Puig's anti-utopia / Leonard A. Cheever
  • Influence of climate on the cultures of the jungle as perceived by two Latin American novelists / Raquel Romeu
  • Climate and identity in the literature of the French Antilles / Jack Jordan
  • Afro-Cuban culture, ecology, and climate in La comparsa by Felipe Pichardo Moya / Luis A. Jiménez.