Climate and literature : reflections of environment / edited by Janet Pérez and Wendell Aycock.

Other author Pérez, Janet.
Other author Aycock, Wendell M.
Format Book
Publication InfoLubbock, Tex., USA : Texas Tech University Press, ©1995.
Descriptionx, 134 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Climate in literature.
Weather in literature.
Setting (Literature)

SeriesStudies in comparative literature, 0899-2193 ; no. 25
Studies in comparative literature (Lubbock, Tex.) ; no. 25. ^A237843
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 95036736
ISBN0896723542 (acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN56.C612 C55 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold