@article{ART003117164},
author={Jiwon Rim},
title={Apocalypticism and Joy: Rereading the Environmental Rhetoric of Silent Spring},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2024},
volume={81},
number={3},
pages={397-420}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jiwon Rim
TI - Apocalypticism and Joy: Rereading the Environmental Rhetoric of Silent Spring
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2024
VL - 81
IS - 3
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 397
EP - 420
SN - 1598-3021
AB - Tracing the now-familiar apocalyptic environmental rhetoric back to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, this article argues that Silent Spring, quite contrary to the common perception, does not draw its persuasive power from the prediction of inevitable environmental “end.” I read Silent Spring as essentially an attempt to carve out the time of ecological action between the impending-but-not-inevitable doom and readerly present, evoking the still-remaining joys of nature. We are living in a time in which apocalyptic environmental warnings and their “shock” became everyday news. By reevaluating everyday joy as an unexhausted source of the rhetorical power of Silent Spring, this article attempts to draw outlines of a new environmental rhetoric beyond the overused apocalyptic one.
KW - Rachel Carson;Silent Spring;Ecology;Environmental Movement;Apocalyptic Rhetoric;Nature Writing
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Jiwon Rim. (2024). Apocalypticism and Joy: Rereading the Environmental Rhetoric of Silent Spring. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 81(3), 397-420.
Jiwon Rim. 2024, "Apocalypticism and Joy: Rereading the Environmental Rhetoric of Silent Spring", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.81, no.3 pp.397-420.
Jiwon Rim "Apocalypticism and Joy: Rereading the Environmental Rhetoric of Silent Spring" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 81.3 pp.397-420 (2024) : 397.
Jiwon Rim. Apocalypticism and Joy: Rereading the Environmental Rhetoric of Silent Spring. 2024; 81(3), 397-420.
Jiwon Rim. "Apocalypticism and Joy: Rereading the Environmental Rhetoric of Silent Spring" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 81, no.3 (2024) : 397-420.
Jiwon Rim. Apocalypticism and Joy: Rereading the Environmental Rhetoric of Silent Spring. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 81(3), 397-420.
Jiwon Rim. Apocalypticism and Joy: Rereading the Environmental Rhetoric of Silent Spring. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2024; 81(3) 397-420.
Jiwon Rim. Apocalypticism and Joy: Rereading the Environmental Rhetoric of Silent Spring. 2024; 81(3), 397-420.
Jiwon Rim. "Apocalypticism and Joy: Rereading the Environmental Rhetoric of Silent Spring" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 81, no.3 (2024) : 397-420.
