German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene

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.

• .-1 The Dark Pastoral: A Trope for the Anthropocene.-2 Goethe’s Faust and the Ecolinguistics of .-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: KathrinRöggla’s Documentary Film The Mobile Future.- 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