Weathers of Body and World

Title
Weathers of Body and World
Publication Date
2022-03-31
Author(s)
Hamilton, Jennifer Mae
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6380-9067
Email: jhamil36@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jhamil36
Editor
Editor(s): Adeline Johns-Putra and Kelly Sultzbach
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Edition
1
DOI
10.1017/9781009057868.004
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/73677
Abstract

This chapter outlines three methods for reading climate and weather in literary texts while resisting both universalism and anachronism. First, climatological reading focuses on genre, while also drawing on the poststructuralist feminist and antiracist method of making specific absences present. In contrast, meteorological reading harnesses the rhetorical terms metaphor and metonymy to carefully parse the weather’s localised specificities. The concept ‘weathering’ is then introduced to bridge the historical spatial and temporal distinction between climate and weather. Throughout, the chapter demonstrates how to connect readings of power and difference to an analysis of climate and weather. The methods are described by engaging with a range of literary historians, theorists, and ecocritics and illustrated by way of the reading of two famously weatherworn canonical texts, Wuthering Heights and King Lear, and lesser-known pieces by Claudia Rankine and Simone de Beauvoir.

Link
Citation
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate, p. 55-68
ISBN
9781009057868
9781316512166
9781009060813
Start page
55
End page
68

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