Climate and literature
Subtitle: reflections of environment
By: edited by Janet Pérez and Wendell Aycock.
Contributors: Pérez, Janet.; Aycock, Wendell M.
Series: Studies in comparative literature,; no. 25; Studies in comparative literature (Lubbock, Tex.) ;; no. 25.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Lubbock, Tex., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: Climate in literature.; Weather in literature.; Setting (Literature)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Climate as science and metaphor in the writings of Jehuda Halevi / Stephen T. Newmyer; title: Astral and tidal phenomena, earthquake prediction, and The astronomical clock of Juan de Barrenechea / Robert J. Morris; title: Zola's uses of climate in The land / Wendell McClendon; title: The role of climate in twentieth-century Spanish American fiction / George R. McMurray; title: The endless rains of death and desolation in García Márquez's short stories / Clementina R. Adams; title: Creating an atmosphere : depiction of climate in the works of Gabriel García Márquez / Gary S. Elbow; title: The weather as a story element in four short works from Latin America / Paul Nelson; title: Heat, water, and stars in Pedro Páramo / Cida Chase; title: Ices everlasting and passions perverted : the physical and moral climate of Puig's anti-utopia / Leonard A. Cheever; title: Influence of climate on the cultures of the jungle as perceived by two Latin American novelists / Raquel Romeu; title: Climate and identity in the literature of the French Antilles / Jack Jordan; title: Afro-Cuban culture, ecology, and climate in La comparsa by Felipe Pichardo Moya / Luis A. Jiménez.