m c k ibben on c limate c hange & f iction : “understand what things feel like” “the...
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MCKIBBEN ON CLIMATE CHANGE & FICTION:
“Understand what things feel like”
“The background becomes the highest drama”
“to illuminate … to bear witness”
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RACHEL CARSON & MARGARET ATWOOD
From DDT to Climate Change
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CLOSE READING “A FABLE FOR TOMORROW”
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A FABLE FOR TOMORROW
Fiction: a story not entirely factual, but at least partially shaped, made up, imagined. “Not entirely factual” ≠ “Not true”
Fable/parable (literary genres): short, succinct, didactic fictional story that almost always ends in an explicit moral lesson (the moral of the story). A fable usually includes animals/plants/natural forces that are anthropomorphized, while a parable usually includes only human actors.
Genre: A literary type or class. That is, a set of works
characterized by similarities in subject matter, style, structure, etc.
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CLOSE READING “TIME CAPSULE FOUND ON THE DEAD PLANET”
NarrativeStory Narrative Discourse
Fiction/truthFable/parableGenre