Preface

the anthropocene and the challenge of cultural difference

Ursula K. Heise

1-6

Introduction

Caroline Schaumann, Heather I. Sullivan

7-21

The dark pastoral

a trope for the anthropocene

Heather I. Sullivan

25-44

Goethe's Faust and the ecolinguistics of "here"

Simon Richter

45-64

Adalbert Stifter's alternative anthropocene

reimagining social nature in brigitta and abdias

Alexander Phillips

65-85

The senses of slovenia

Peter Handke, Stanley Cavell, and the environmental ethics of repetition

Bernhard Malkmus

87-108

"Mines aren't really like that"

German romantic undergrounds revisited

Käte Rigby

111-128

(Bad) air and (faulty) inspiration

elemental and environmental influences on Fontane

Evi Zemanek

129-145

Performing Hunger

fasting in Franz Kafka's Hunger artist as poetic practice

Sabine Wilke, Cora L. Wilke-Gray

147-164

Speaking stones

material agency and interaction in Christian Enzensberger's geschichte der natur

Caroline Schaumann

165-182

When nature strikes back

the inconvenient apocalypse in Franz Hohler's der neue berg

Christoph Weber

185-204

National invective and environmental exploitation in Thomas Bernhard's frost

Sean Ireton

205-227

German film ventures into the amazon

Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo as prelude to Michał Marczak's eco-documentary

Brad Prager

229-245

Assessing how we assess environmental risk

Kathrin Röggla's documentary film the mobile future

Katharina Gerstenberger

247-263

Writing after nature

a Sebaldian ecopoetics

Jason Groves

267-292

Telling the story of climate change

the German novel in the anthropocene

Axel Goodbody

293-314

The anthropocene in contemporary German ecothrillers

Gabriele Dürbeck

315-331