TY - JOUR A1 - Kunow, Rüdiger T1 - "Unavoidably side by side" BT - mobility studies – concepts and issues JF - Mobilisierte Kulturen Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-57317 SN - 2192-3019 SN - 2192-3027 IS - 1 SP - 17 EP - 32 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan A1 - Peters, Arne T1 - A portrait-corpus study of language attitudes towards Afrikaans and English JF - Language matters : studies in the languages of Africa N2 - Language portraits are useful instruments to elicit speakers' reflections on the languages in their repertoires. In this study, we implement a "portrait-corpus approach" (Peters and Coetzee-Van Rooy 2020) to investigate the conceptualisations of the languages Afrikaans and English in 105 language portraits. In this approach, we use participants' reflections about their placement of the two languages on a human silhouette as a linguistic corpus. Relying on quantitative and qualitative analyses using WordSmith, Statistica and Atlas.ti, our study shows that Afrikaans is mainly conceptualised as a language that is located in more peripheral areas of the body (for example, the hands and feet) and, hence, is perceived as less important in participants' repertoires. The central location of English in the head reveals its status as an important language in the participants' multilingual repertoires. We argue that these conceptualisations of Afrikaans and English provide additional insight into the attitudes towards these languages in South Africa. KW - language attitudes KW - language portraits KW - portrait-corpus approach KW - multilingualism KW - South Africa KW - Afrikaans KW - English Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2021.1942167 SN - 1022-8195 SN - 1753-5395 VL - 52 IS - 2 SP - 3 EP - 28 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hordych, Anna T1 - Against the pain BT - neo-decadent disappearing, drugging, and drifting in Moshfegh and Houellebec JF - Unavailable : the joy of not responding Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-86599-549-0 SP - 241 EP - 273 PB - Kulturverlag Kadmos CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Crane, Kylie Ann T1 - Anthropocene Presences and the Limits of Deferral BT - Alexis Wright's Carpentaria and The Swan Book JF - Open library of humanities N2 - Literary criticism, particularly ecocriticism, occupies an uneasy position with regard to activism: reading books (or plays, or poems) seems like a rather leisurely activity to be undertaking if our environment—our planet—is in crisis. And yet, critiquing the narratives that structure worlds and discourses is key to the activities of the (literary) critic in this time of crisis. If this crisis manifests as a ‘crisis of imagination’ (e.g. Ghosh), I argue that this not so much a crisis of the absence of texts that address the environmental disaster, but rather a failure to comprehend the presences of the Anthropocene in the present. To interpret (literary) texts in this framework must entail acknowledging and scrutinising the extent of the incapacity of the privileged reader to comprehend the crisis as presence and present rather than spatially or temporally remote. The readings of the novels Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013) by Waanyi writer Alexis Wright (Australia) trace the uneven presences of Anthropocenes in the present by way of bringing future worlds (The Swan Book) to the contemporary (Carpentaria). In both novels, protagonists must forge survival amongst ruins of the present and future: the depicted worlds, in particular the representations of the disenfranchisement of indigenous inhabitants of the far north of the Australian continent, emerge as a critique of the intersections of capitalist and colonial projects that define modernity and its impact on the global climate. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.348 SN - 2056-6700 VL - 5 IS - 1 PB - Open library of humanities CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pfeil, Simone A1 - Genzel, Susanne A1 - Kügler, Frank T1 - Empirical investigation of focus and exhaustivity in Akan JF - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 N2 - It has been observed for many African languages that focussed subjects have to appear outside of their syntactic base position, as opposed to focussed objects, which can remain in-situ. This is known as subjectobject asymmetry of focus marking, which Fiedler et al. (2010) claim to hold also for Akan. Genzel (2013), on the other hand, argues that Akan does not exhibit a subject-object focus asymmetry. A questionnaire study and a production experiment were carried out to investigate whether focussed subjects may indeed be realized in-situ in Akan. The results suggest that (i) focussed subjects do not have to be obligatorily realized ex-situ, and that (ii) the syntactic preference for the realization of a focussed subject highly depends on exhaustivity. KW - Akan KW - focus KW - subjects KW - exhaustivity KW - in-situ Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-83774 SN - 1614-4708 SN - 1866-4725 IS - 19 SP - 87 EP - 109 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Akuoko Duah, Reginald T1 - Exhaustive Focus Marking in Akan JF - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 N2 - This paper reopens the discussion on focus marking in Akan (Kwa, Niger-Congo) by examining the semantics of the so-called focus marker in the language. It is shown that the so-called focus marker expresses exhaustivity when it occurs in a sentence with narrow focus. The study employs four standard tests for exhaustivity proposed in the literature to examine the semantics of Akan focus constructions (Szabolsci 1981, 1994; É. Kiss 1998; Hartmann and Zimmermann 2007). It is shown that although a focused entity with the so-called focus marker nà is interpreted to mean ‘only X and nothing/nobody else,’ this meaning appears to be pragmatic. KW - Akan KW - focus marker KW - cleft KW - exhaustivity KW - ex situ KW - in situ KW - subject/non-subject asymmetry Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-83748 SN - 1614-4708 SN - 1866-4725 IS - 19 SP - 1 EP - 28 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Goldmann, Marie-Luise A1 - Hordych, Anna T1 - Introduction JF - Unavailable : the joy of not responding Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-86599-549-0 SP - 11 EP - 30 PB - Kulturverlag Kadmos CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ungelenk, Johannes T1 - Kiss me (not!), Cressida - or: the social touch of lips and tongue JF - Arcadia : international journal of literary culture N2 - The article is dedicated to the problem of social bonds that is negotiated in Troilus and Cressida. Troilus and Ulysses embody an old, traditional order of the world that is out of joint, while Cressida's behaviour and her way of interacting indicate a different and new regime of social regulation that is about to take over. With its complex superposition of (touches of) love and war, Troilus and Cressida brings together rituals of touch, anarchic speech acts, and a gendered perspective on the world that associates touch and temporality with 'frail' femininity and temptation. With unrivalled intensity, the play puts to the spectator that the basic condition of touch, i.e. exposing oneself to another, entails an incalculable risk. Hector tragically falls for the vulnerability inherent in touch and the audience suffers with him because they share this existential precondition on which modern society is 'founded.' The gloomy, inescapable atmosphere of societal crisis that Troilus and Cressida creates emphasises the fact that the fragility of touch is not to be overcome. The fractions - no matter whether Greek, Trojan, or those of loving couples - cannot simply be reunited to form a new, authentic entity. Generating at least some form of social cohesion therefore remains a challenge. KW - Friedrich Nietzsche KW - Carl Schmitt KW - social cohesion KW - Troilus and KW - Cressida KW - touch Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2022-9051 SN - 0003-7982 SN - 1613-0642 VL - 57 IS - 1 SP - 25 EP - 46 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Kleine Kosmopolitismen JF - Global Citizenship – Perspektiven einer Weltgemeinschaft Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-95829-211-6 SP - 44 EP - 53 PB - Steidel CY - Göttingen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hartung, Heike T1 - Longevity narratives BT - Darwinism and beyond JF - Journal of aging studie N2 - The essay looks at longevity narratives as an important configuration of old age, which is closely related to evolutionary theories of ageing. In order to analyse two case studies of longevity published in the early twentieth century, the American psychologist G. Stanley Hall's book Senescence (1922) and the British dramatist Bernard Shaw's play cycle Back to Methuselah (1921), the essay draws on an outline of theories of longevity from the Enlightenment to the present. The analysis of the two case studies illustrates that evolutionary and cultural perspectives on ageing and longevity are ambivalent and problematic. In Hall's and Shaw's texts this is related to a crisis narrative of culture and civilization against which both writers place their specific solutions of individual and species longevity. Whereas Hall employs autobiographical accounts of artists as examples of longevity to strengthen his argument about wise old men as exclusive repositories of knowledge, Shaw in his vision of longevity as an extended form of midlife for both genders encounters the limits of age representation. KW - Age studies KW - Cultural studies KW - Longevity narratives KW - Evolutionary theories of ageing Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2018.03.002 SN - 0890-4065 SN - 1879-193X VL - 47 SP - 84 EP - 89 PB - Elsevier CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Valle, Daniel T1 - Modality in Kakataibo JF - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 N2 - This paper explores the semantic space of modality in Kakataibo (Panoan). It is found that Kakataibo makes a distinction in the modal space based on the modality type. Circumstantial modality is encoded by a construction while the epistemic space is conveyed by the second position enclitics =dapi ‘inferential’, =id ‘second-hand information’ and =kuni ‘contrastive assertion’. However, none of these strategies to encode modality restricts the quantificational force, leaving it underspecified. These facts are consistent with the predictions of current typologies of modal systems. KW - modality KW - conversational background KW - quantificational force KW - Kakataibo Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-83784 SN - 1614-4708 SN - 1866-4725 IS - 19 SP - 111 EP - 137 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Matijević, Tijana T1 - National, post-national, transnational BT - Is post-Yugoslav literature an arguable or promising field of study? JF - Grenzräume – Grenzbewegungen : Ergebnisse der Arbeitstreffen des Jungen Forums Slavistische Literaturwissenschaft in Basel 2013 und Frankfurt (Oder) und Słubice 2014 ; Bd. 1 Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-92573 SN - 978-3-86956-358-9 VL - 1 SP - 101 EP - 112 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk A1 - Raja, Ira A1 - Shaswati, Mazumdar T1 - Postcolonial world literature BT - Narration, translation, imagination JF - Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology N2 - Postcolonial criticism has repeatedly debunked the ostensible neutrality of the ‘world’ of world literature by pointing out that and how the contemporary world – whether conceived in terms of cosmopolitan conviviality or neoliberal globalization – cannot be understood without recourse to the worldly event of Europe’s colonial expansion. While we deem this critical perspective indispensable, we simultaneously maintain that to reduce ‘the world’ to the world-making impact of capital, colonialism, and patriarchy paints an overly deterministic picture that runs the risk of unwittingly reproducing precisely that dominant ‘oneworldness’ that it aims to critique. Moreover, the mere potentiality of alternative modes of world-making tends to disappear in such a perspective so that the only remaining option to think beyond oneworldness resides in the singularity claim. This insistence on singularity, however, leaves the relatedness of the single units massively underdetermined or denies it altogether. By contrast, we locate world literature in the conflicted space between the imperial imposition of a hierarchically stratified world (to which, as hegemonic forces tell us, ‘there is no alternative’) and the unrealized ‘undivided world’ that multiple minor cosmopolitan projects yet have to win. It is precisely the tension between these ‘two worlds’ that brings into view the crucial centrality not of the nodes in their alleged singularity but their specific relatedness to each other, that both impedes and energizes world literature today and renders it ineluctably postcolonial. KW - Postkoloniale Theorie KW - Weltliteratur KW - Emily Apter KW - oneworldness KW - relationality KW - singularity KW - untranslatability Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513621994707 SN - 0725-5136 VL - 162 IS - 1 SP - 3 EP - 17 PB - Sage CY - London [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Reflections of Lusáni Cissé BT - Imperial Images and Sentient Critique JF - Ideology in postcolonial texts and contexts Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-90-04-42805-8 SN - 978-90-04-43745-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004437456_010 SP - 147 EP - 161 PB - Rodopi CY - Leiden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ungelenk, Johannes T1 - Satyrs, Spirits and Dionysian Intemperance in Shakespeare's 'Tempest' JF - Cahiers Élisabéthains N2 - The article focuses on the rebellious subplot of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest that forms around Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, and reads it as a satyr play. Demonstrated is how the Dionysian subplot stands in close analogical connection with the play’s main action. It is also argued that the storyline emphasises a dimension of the play that is of high relevance to the analysis of its metatheatrical implications. The correspondences between the main action and the satyr play elements highlight the important role that intemperance, excess and the suspension of control play in the Shakespearean theatrical setting. N2 - Le présent article s’intéresse à l’intrigue secondaire de La Tempête, de William Shakespeare, qui s’organise autour de la rébellion de Caliban, de Stephano, de Trinculo, abordée comme drame satyrique. Il démontre comment cette intrigue secondaire dionysiaque comporte des liens analogiques étroits avec l’action principale. L’auteur avance également que la trame de l’action souligne une dimension de la pièce qui s’avère importante pour l’analyse des implications métathéâtrales. Les correspondances entre l’action principale et le drame satyrique mettent en relief le rôle important de l’intempérance, de l’excès et du dérèglement dans un contexte dramatique shakespearien. KW - metatheatre KW - alcohol KW - weather KW - satyr play KW - animal Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0184767819897082 SN - 0184-7678 SN - 2054-4715 VL - 101 IS - 1 SP - 45 EP - 64 PB - Sage Publications CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klose, Claudius T1 - Sentence Type and Association with Focus in Aymara JF - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 N2 - Sentence type marking is realized by two suffixes in Aymara, one marks declaratives and the other polar sentences (polar questions and negated sentences) by picking out one or two propositions, respectively. A third suffix, initially associated with wh-questions, turns out to be a (scalar) additive and unrelated to sentence type. The sentence-type-related suffixes associate with focus and the additive can associate with focus by attaching to the focused constituent. KW - Focus KW - Association with Focus KW - Sentence Type KW - Aymara Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-83768 SN - 1614-4708 SN - 1866-4725 IS - 19 SP - 63 EP - 86 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schroeder, Christoph T1 - The advanced acquisition of orthography in heritage Turkish in Germany JF - Written language & literacy N2 - The paper investigates Turkish texts from heritage speakers of Turkish in Germany in a pseudo-longitudinal setting, looking at pupils' texts from the 5th, 7th, 10th and 12th grades. Two types of dynamics are identified in the advanced acquisition(1) of Turkish orthography in the heritage context. One is the dynamic of language contact, where in certain areas of the orthography, we find a re-interpretation of Turkish principles according to the German model. However, this changes as the pupils grow up. The second dynamic is the heritage situation. The heritage situation on one side leads to the establishment of new practices, and it also leads to a higher degree of variability of spelling solutions in those areas, where the orthographic system of Turkish poses challenges to every writer, whether monolingual and growing up in Turkey or heritage speaker. KW - Turkish KW - heritage language KW - orthography KW - orthographic word KW - advanced acquisition of KW - language contact Turkish-German Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.00043.sch SN - 1387-6732 SN - 1570-6001 VL - 23 IS - 2 SP - 251 EP - 271 PB - John Benjamins Publishing Co. CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Strätling, Susanne T1 - The Author as Researcher BT - Boris Pil’niak Samples the Arctic Sea JF - Russian Literature N2 - This article proposes a new perspective on avant-garde travel writing through the lens of scientific field work, investigating these new writing techniques in Boris Pil’niak’s expedition prose. In the 1920s, the researching writer represents a hidden, but influential counterpart to the widely propagated figure of the working writer. While the author as producer combines word and deed in an operative act, the author as researcher investigates the production of knowledge. This entails revising the centrality of facts. Literature as artistic research subverts factography by going beyond the horizons of veristic data registration to include uncharted realms and vague possibilities. This exploration leads to specific genres: the author as researcher tries his hand at a kind of laboratory text, a prolific genre at the intersection of testing equipment, recording media, and hypothetical thought. Not confined to a sterile lab, avant-garde writer-researchers, as members of research expeditions, oscillate between their home writing desks and the remote depths of the emerging USSR. At the same time, they explore writing practices situated between data acquisition, sampling, fact-finding, observation and recording. KW - Arctic Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ruslit.2019.04.012 SN - 0304-3479 SN - 1878-3678 VL - 103 SP - 283 EP - 303 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Priewe, Marc T1 - The commuting island BT - cultural (im)mobility in The Flying Bus JF - Mobilisierte Kulturen Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-57368 SN - 2192-3019 SN - 2192-3027 IS - 1 SP - 135 EP - 147 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stockhorst, Stefanie ED - Stockhorst, Stefanie ED - Overhoff, Jürgen ED - Corfield, Penelope J. T1 - The Invention of the ‚cheval-machine‘ as a Medical Response to the Machine Paradigm of the Enlightenment BT - Samuel Theodor Quellmaltz in Context JF - Human-animal interactions in the eighteenth century : from pests and predators to pets, poems and philosophy N2 - In 1735, the Leipzig professor of medicine Samuel Theodor Quellmaltz (1696–1758) designed and built an artificial horse. He presented it in an illustrated construction manual, which included precise information about the materials and dimensions of this wooden horse for therapeutic use. This contribution analyses Quellmaltz’s invention of the ‘machine horse’ as a medical and technological contribution to prevalent theories about the paradigmatic role of the machine in Enlightenment thought. N2 - En 1735, le professeur de médecine de Leipzig Samuel Theodor Quellmaltz (1696–1758) a conçu et fabriqué un cheval artificiel. Il l’a présenté dans un manuel de construction illustré avec des informations précises sur les matériaux et les dimensions de ce cheval en bois à usage thérapeutique. Cette contribution analyse l’invention du ‘cheval-machine’ par Quellmaltz en tant que contribution médicale et technologique au paradigme des machines au siècle des Lumières. KW - Animal Studies Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-90-04-49539-5 SN - 978-90-04-44872-8 U6 - https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1163/9789004495395_006 VL - 2022 SP - 43 EP - 67 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fominyam, Henry Z. T1 - The Syntax of Focus and Interrogation in Awing BT - a Descriptive Approach JF - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 N2 - According to Aikhenvald (2007:5), descriptive linguistics or linguistic fieldwork “ideally involves observing the language as it is used, becoming a member of the community, and often being adopted into the kinship system”. Descriptive linguistics therefore differs from theoretical linguistics in that while the former seeks to describe natural languages as they are used, the latter, other than describing, attempts to give explanations on how or why language phenomena behave in certain ways. Thus, I will abstract away from any preconceived ideas on how sentences ought to be in Awing and take the linguist/reader through focus and interrogative constructions to get a feeling of how the Awing people interact verbally. KW - Awing KW - focus realization KW - question formation KW - descriptive grammar Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-83755 SN - 1614-4708 SN - 1866-4725 IS - 19 SP - 29 EP - 62 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Carly T1 - They don’t look like children BT - child asylum-seekers, the Dubs amendment and the politics of childhood JF - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies N2 - In October 2016, following a campaign led by Labour Peer Lord Alfred Dubs, the first child asylum-seekers allowed entry to the UK under new legislation (the ‘Dubs amendment’) arrived in England. Their arrival was captured by a heavy media presence, and very quickly doubts were raised by right-wing tabloids and politicians about their age. In this article, I explore the arguments underpinning the Dubs campaign and the media coverage of the children’s arrival as a starting point for interrogating representational practices around children who seek asylum. I illustrate how the campaign was premised on a universal politics of childhood that inadvertently laid down the terms on which these children would be given protection, namely their innocence. The universality of childhood fuels public sympathy for child asylum-seekers, underlies the ‘child first, migrant second’ approach advocated by humanitarian organisations, and it was a key argument in the ‘Dubs amendment’. Yet the campaign highlights how representations of child asylum-seekers rely on codes that operate to identify ‘unchildlike’ children. As I show, in the context of the criminalisation of undocumented migrants‘, childhood is no longer a stable category which guarantees protection, but is subject to scrutiny and suspicion and can, ultimately, be disproved. KW - Politics of childhood KW - child asylum-seekers KW - innocence KW - humanitarianism; Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1417027 SN - 1369-183X SN - 1469-9451 VL - 44 IS - 11 SP - 1757 EP - 1773 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ungelenk, Johannes T1 - Unavailable—Escaping the ‘Realm of Purpose’ with Roland Barthes JF - Unavailable : the joy of not responding Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-86599-549-0 SP - 35 EP - 45 PB - Kulturverlag Kadmos CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weilandt, Maria ED - Lehnert, Gertrud ED - Weilandt, Maria ED - Textor, Ursula T1 - Ways of Worldmaking BT - Die Miniaturen von Willard Wigan, Tessa Farmer und Rithy Panh JF - Materielle Miniaturen : zur Ästhetik der Verkleinerung Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-8260-6679-5 SP - 185 EP - 202 PB - Königshausen & Neumann CY - Würzburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ungelenk, Johannes T1 - Émile Zola and the Literary Language of Climate Change JF - Nottingham French Studies N2 - On 7 February 1861, John Tyndall, professor of natural philosophy, delivered a historical lecture: he could prove that different gases absorb heat to a very different degree, which implies that the temperate conditions provided for by the Earth's atmosphere are dependent on its particular composition of gases. The theoretical foundation of climate science was laid. Ten years later, on the other side of the Channel, a young and ambitious author was working on a comprehensive literary analysis of the French era under the Second Empire. Émile Zola had probably not heard or read of Tyndall's discovery. However, the article makes the case for reading Zola's Rougon-Macquart as an extensive story of climate change. Zola's literary attempts to capture the defining characteristic of the Second Empire led him to the insight that its various milieus were all part of the same ‘climate’: that of an all-encompassing warming. Zola suggests that this climate is man-made: the economic success of the Second Empire is based on heating, in a literal and metaphorical sense, as well as on stoking the steam-engines and creating the hypertrophic atmosphere of the hothouse that enhances life and maximises turnover and profit. In contrast to Tyndall and his audience, Zola sensed the catastrophic consequences of this warming: the Second Empire was inevitably moving towards a final débâcle, i.e. it was doomed to perish in local and ‘global’ climate catastrophes. The article foregrounds the supplementary status of Tyndall's physical and Zola's literary knowledge. As Zola's striking intuition demonstrates, literature appears to have a privileged approach to the phenomenon of man-induced climate change. N2 - Le 7 février 1861, le professeur de philosophie naturelle John Tyndall donna une communication historique: il pouvait prouver que des gaz différents absorbent la chaleur de manière différente, ce qui implique que les conditions tempérées fournies par l’atmosphère terrestre dépendent de sa composition particulière en gaz. Le fondement théorique de la science climatique était posé. Dix ans plus tard, de l'autre côté du Channel, un jeune auteur ambitieux était en train de faire une analyse littéraire globale de la France du Second Empire. Émile Zola n'avait probablement pas entendu parler de la découverte de Tyndall. Cependant, cet article propose de lire les Rougon Macquart de Zola comme une vaste histoire du changement climatique. Les tentatives littéraires entreprises par Zola pour capturer la caractéristique déterminante du Second Empire l'amena à réaliser que ses différents milieux faisaient tous partie du même « climat »: celui d'un réchauffement global. Zola suggère que ce climat est créé par l'humain et que le succès économique du Second Empire est basé sur l'action de chauffer dans un sens littéral et métaphorique, ainsi que sur l'alimentation des machines à vapeur et la création de l'atmosphère hypertrophiée d'une serre qui enrichit la vie et maximise l'écoulement et le profit. Contrairement à Tyndall et à son auditoire, Zola pressentit les conséquences catastrophiques d'un tel réchauffement: le Second Empire s'approchait inévitablement d'une débâcle finale, c'est-à-dire qu'il était voué à périr dans des catastrophes locales et « globales ». KW - Rougon-Macquart KW - climate change KW - John Tyndall KW - global warming KW - climate catastrophe KW - Second Empire KW - changement climatique KW - réchauffement planétaire KW - catastrophe climatique KW - Second Empire Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2021.0331 VL - 60 IS - 3 SP - 362 EP - 373 ER -