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Canada and climate change
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ISBN: 0228009863 0228009855 9780228009856 9780228009863 9780228009160 Year: 2022 Publisher: Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Canada has committed to producing net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Canadian citizens need to understand why our most distinguished climate scientists and our senior political leaders think that we must meet this target. Canada and Climate Change explains the importance of policies that will ensure we meet the net-zero emissions target.

Apocalyptic dread : American film at the turn of the millennium
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ISBN: 079148033X 142947145X 9781429471459 9780791470435 0791470431 9780791470442 079147044X 9780791480335 Year: 2007 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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In Apocalyptic Dread, Kirsten Moana Thompson examines how fears and anxieties about the future are reflected in recent American cinema. Through close readings of such films as Cape Fear, Candyman, Dolores Claiborne, Se7en, Signs, and War of the Worlds, Thompson argues that a longstanding American apocalyptic tradition permeates our popular culture, spreading from science-fiction and disaster films into horror, crime, and melodrama. Drawing upon Kierkegaard's notion of dread—that is, a fundamental anxiety and ambivalence about existential choice and the future—Thompson suggests that the apocalyptic dread revealed in these films, and its guiding tropes of violence, retribution, and renewal, also reveal deep-seated anxieties about historical fragmentation and change, anxieties that are in turn displaced onto each film's particular "monster," whether human, demonic, or eschatological.


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Catastrophe and catharsis : perspectives on disaster and redemption in German culture and beyond
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ISBN: 9781571139016 9781782046783 157113901X 178204678X Year: 2015 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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Destroying human habitat and taking human lives, disasters, be they natural, man-made, or a combination, threaten large populations, even entire nations and societies. They also disrupt the existing order and cause discontinuity in our sense of self and our perceptions of the world. To restore order, not only must human beings be rescued and affected areas rebuilt, but the reality of the catastrophe must also be transformed into narrative. The essays in this collection examine representations of disaster in literature, film, and mass media in German and international contexts, exploring the nexus between disruption and recovery through narrative from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include the Lisbon earthquake, the Paris Commune, the Hamburg and Dresden fire-bombings in the Second World War, nuclear disasters in Alexander Kluge's films, the filmic aesthetics of catastrophe, Yoko Tawada's lectures on the Fukushima disaster and Christa Wolf's novel Störfall in light of that same disaster, Joseph Haslinger and the tsunami of 2004, traditions regarding avalanche disaster in the Tyrol, and the problems and implications of defining disaster.

Contributors:Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Yasemin Dayioglu-Yücel, Janine Hartman, Jan Hinrichsen, Claudia Jerzak, Lars Koch, Franz Mauelshagen, Tanja Nusser, Torsten Pflugmacher, Christoph Weber.

Katharina Gerstenberger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Utah. Tanja Nusser is DAAD Visiting Associate Professor of German at the University of Cincinnati.


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9/11 : culture, catastrophe and the critique of singularity
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ISBN: 3110477688 9783110477719 3110477718 9783110477689 9783110477245 3110477246 9783110473131 3110473135 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin, Germany ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter,

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Even though much has been said and written about 9/11, the work developed on this subject has mostly explored it as an unparalleled event, a turning point in history. This book wishes to look instead at how disruptive events promote a network of associations and how people resort to comparison as a means to make sense of the unknown, i.e. to comprehend what seems incomprehensible. In order to effectively discuss the complexity of 9/11, this book articulates different fields of knowledge and perspectives such as visual culture, media studies, performance studies, critical theory, memory studies and literary studies to shed some light on 9/11 and analyze how the event has impacted on American social and cultural fabric and how the American society has come to terms with such a devastating event. A more in-depth study of Don DeLillo's Falling Man and Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close draws attention to the cultural construction of catastrophe and the plethora of cultural products 9/11 has inspired. It demonstrates how the event has been integrated into American culture and exemplifies what makes up the 9/11 imaginary.


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Les catastrophes naturelles au Moyen Âge
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ISBN: 9782271135056 2271135052 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris: CNRS éditions,

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Comment comprendre la notion de catastrophe naturelle dans la pensée médiévale? Étonnement, puissance, terreur, fonction purificatrice, choc des consciences... Avec tous les fantasmes qu'ils drainent dans leur sillage et la stupeur qu'ils produisent sur les esprits, ces "accidents de la nature" ouvrent une fenêtre fascinante sur l'histoire des représentations au Moyen Âge. Revisitant les textes des chroniqueurs qui tentèrent d'en rendre compte, Thomas Labbé montre que le récit du phénomène extrême favorise toujours la déformation de la réalité vécue. La catastrophe apparaît comme une manière de donner un sens à l'extraordinaire, comme en attestent les récits de l'effondrement du mont Granier en 1248, de l'inondation de l'Arno en 1333 ou encore du tremblement de terre à Naples en 1456. Le processus d'"événementialisation" qui en découle s'opère plus à travers l'imaginaire et la sensibilité de la société que par ses capacités rationnelles d'objectivisation. Une grande étude à la croisée de l'histoire sociale et de l'histoire des émotions en Occident.


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La Shoah racontée aux enfants, une éducation littéraire?
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ISBN: 270614291X 2706142898 9782706142895 9782706142918 9782706142826 Year: 2019 Publisher: Fontaine, France : Presses Universitaires de Grenoble,

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Depuis 2002, l'enseignement de la Shoah est inscrit aux programmes des écoles primaires, et les enseignants du premier degré sont invités à s'appuyer sur des ouvrages de littérature pour la jeunesse pour assurer cette étude. Mais ces livres sont-ils vraiment des outils pédagogiques ? Quels impacts leurs illustrations, leurs personnages ont-ils sur les jeunes élèves lecteurs ? Comment parviennent-ils à montrer aux enfants que l'extermination des Juifs est un fait historique réel sans les choquer ? À travers une analyse d'ouvrages de littérature pour la jeunesse parus sur le thème entre 1944 et 2013, Béatrice Finet propose une double analyse, littéraire et didactique, pour servir une réflexion plus générale sur les enjeux éducatifs de l'enseignement de la Shoah à l'école élémentaire. Cet ouvrage sera une ressource pour les enseignants et futurs enseignants, et intéressera aussi les chercheurs et éditeurs en littérature pour la jeunesse.

Dictionary of the Holocaust : biography, geography, and terminology
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ISBN: 031330355X 0313003246 9780313003240 1280314915 9786610314911 Year: 1997 Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,


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Teaching, learning, and the Holocaust
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ISBN: 0253011337 0253011469 9780253011466 9780253011329 0253011329 9780253011336 Year: 2013 Publisher: Bloomington

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Classroom study of the Holocaust evokes strong emotions in teachers and students. Teaching, Learning, and the Holocaust assesses challenges and approaches to teaching about the Holocaust through history and literature. Howard Tinberg and Ronald Weisberger apply methods and insights of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to examine issues in interdisciplinary teaching, with a focus on the community college setting. They discuss student learning and teacher effectiveness and offer guidance for teaching courses on the Holocaust, with relevance for other contexts involving trauma and atroc

Studying the Holocaust
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ISBN: 1280329998 0203056434 1134719647 9780203056431 9780415161435 0415161436 9780415161442 0415161444 9781134719594 9781134719631 9781134719648 1134719639 Year: 1998 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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