Environmental Imaginaries of the Arctic in the 21st Century Travel Writing
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Environmental Imaginaries of the Arctic in the 21st Century Travel Writing
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Purgina, E. S.
Menshikov, A. S. |
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TRAVEL WRITING
ARCTIC IMAGINARIES ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINARIES ANTHROPOCENE |
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Received 25 September 2023. Accepted 6 December 2023. Published online 27 December 2023.
Contemporary travel accounts engage with the ecocritical agenda, examining the global environmental crisis caused by human actions. In contrast to earlier narratives that presented the Arctic as a territory to be “claimed,” today’s travelers predominantly view it as a territory to be preserved. Amid the dialectic of destruction and preservation, new environmental imaginaries emphasize the interconnectedness of nature and human history, employing literary techniques to convey this interdependence. William E. Glassley in his book A Wilder Time: Notes From a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice (2018) adopts a “trans-scalar” perspective for narrating his Arctic journeys, seamlessly shifting between microscopic and macroscopic views of the planet, its elements and inhabitants. Glassley’s imaginary of the Arctic as an “indivisible whole” draws from geological and biological sciences. As a geologist, he underscores the unity of Earth’s substances, highlighting the entanglement of geo- and lifecycles. The Arctic, devoid of history during travelers’ presence, reveals its story through geological analysis of collected specimens. Ice, as an archive of planetary history, surpasses human records. Travel literature thus contributes to crafting an environmental imaginary rooted in substantial temporal interconnectedness, addressing the Anthropocene’s challenges. |
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2024-03-04T12:01:32Z
2024-03-04T12:01:32Z 2023 |
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Article
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Purgina E. S. Environmental Imaginaries of the Arctic in the 21st Century Travel Writing / E. S. Purgina, A. S. Menshikov // Changing Societies & Personalities. — 2023. — Vol. 7. Iss. 4. — P. 174–189.
2587-6104 2587-8964 http://elar.urfu.ru/handle/10995/129756 https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=61912971 10.15826/csp.2023.7.4.257 |
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en
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Changing Societies & Personalities. 2023. Vol. 7. Iss. 4
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Уральский федеральный университет
Ural Federal University |
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