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This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature and film to a broader audience. This volume contextualizes the broad-ranging topics and authors in terms of the Anthropocene, beginning with Goethe and the Romantics and extending into twenty-first-century literature and film. Addressing the growing need for environmental awareness in an international humanities curriculum, German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene complements ecocritical analyses emerging from North American and British studies with a specifically German Studies perspective, opening the door to a transnational understanding of how the environment plays an integral role in cultural, political, and economic issues.
1 The Dark Pastoral: A Trope for the Anthropocene
2 Goethe's Faust and the Ecolinguistics of <Here>
3 Adalbert Stifter's Alternative Anthropocene: Reimagining Social Nature in Brigitta and Abdias
4 The Senses of Slovenia: Peter Handke, Stanley Cavell, and the Environmental Ethics of Repetition
5 "Mines aren't really like that": German Romantic Undergrounds Revisited
6 (Bad) Air and (Faulty) Inspiration: Elemental and Environmental Influences on Fontane
7 Hunger Artists and other Performers: Food and Consumption as Poetic Practice
8 Speaking Stones: Material Agency and Interaction in Hans-Christian Enzensberger's Geschichte der Natur
9 When Nature Strikes Back - The Inconvenient Apocalypse in Franz Hohler's Der Neue Berg
10 National Invective and Environmental Exploitation in Thomas Bernhard's Frost
11 German Film Ventures into the Amazon: From Fitzcarraldo to Fuck for Forest
12 Assessing How We Assess Risk: Kathrin Roeggla's Documentary Film The Mobile Future
13 Writing After Nature: A Sebaldian Ecopoetics
14 Telling the Story of Climate Change: The German Novel in the Anthropocene
15 The Anthropocene in Contemporary German Ecothrillers
Caroline Schaumann is Associate Professor of German Studies at Emory University, USA. She is the author of Memory Matters: Generational Responses to Germany's Nazi Past in Recent Women's Literature and co-editor of Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to Twenty-First Century.
Heather I. Sullivan is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Trinity University, Texas, USA. She co-edited The Early History of Embodied Cognition, has been a contributing editor to publications such as New German Critique, Colloquia Germanica, and ISLE, and is author of The Intercontextuality of Self and Nature in Ludwig Tieck's Early Works.
