A Dirty Hero’s Fight for Clean Energy: Satire, Allegory, and Risk Narrative in Ian McEwan’s Solar

In contrast to most other fictional texts treating ecological crisis, Ian McEwan's Solar (2010), celebrated as "the book on climate change," does not develop an apocalyptic scenario culminating in a collective catastrophe. Instead, while on the level of discourse mocking today's...

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Main Author: Evi Zemanek
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment; Universidad de Alcalá de Henares 2012-01-01
Series:Ecozon@
Online Access:http://www.ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/219/512