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America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast

The Hero’s Journey: Climate Adaptation and Creative Non-Fiction Writing

Jan 30, 2018
01:01:32

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In episode 58 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons talks with author and lecturer Elizabeth Rush, of Brown University. Elizabeth is the author of the upcoming book, Rising – Dispatches from the New American Shore.  Topics discussed in this episode:

  • What is ‘creative non-fiction.’
  • Elizabeth explains how humans have or don’t have the emotional resilience to respond to climate change
  • Writing “adaptation metaphors.”
  • Narrative devices like “The Hero’s Journey” to make climate change resonate.
  • The emerging role of Cli- Fi, climate science fiction.
  • And much more!

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Links in episode: https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Dispatches-New-American-Shore/dp/1571313672

Essays by Elizabeth located here:  http://elizabethrush.net/ https://www.brown.edu/academics/english/elizabeth-rush

 

 

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