Tragedy, Catastrophe, Ecology
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Published:2023-03
Issue:1
Volume:67
Page:10-15
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ISSN:1054-2043
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Container-title:TDR: The Drama Review
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language:en
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Short-container-title:TDR: Drama Rev
Author:
Smith Matthew Wilson
Abstract
The term “catastrophe” has a complex history that has become deeply embedded in Western, and increasingly global, cultures. So it is natural enough, when confronted by a phenomenon as harrowing as climate change, to employ the concept and its attendant connotations. But the lens of catastrophe often distorts more than it reveals.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Visual Arts and Performing Arts