Risk Criticism

Risk Criticism is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset its iconic Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight, as close to the apocalypse as it has been since 1953....

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Main Author: Wallace, Molly (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 2016
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