Climate and literature : reflections of environment

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Climate and literature : reflections of environment

edited by Janet Pérez and Wendell Aycock

(Studies in comparative literature, no. 25)

Texas Tech University Press, c1995

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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 Garc ia M arquez's short stories / Clementina R. Adams -- Creating an atmosphere : depiction of climate in the works of Gabriel Garc ia M arquez / Gary S. Elbow -- The weather as a story element in four short worksfrom Latin America / Paul Nelson -- Heat, water, and stars in Pedro P aramo / 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 thejungle 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. Jim enez.

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