from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Catastrophes

Miscellaneous

Catastrophe theory

Cosmic catastrophes.

Man-made catastrophes

Natural catastrophes

Catastrophes (miscellaneous)

García Landa, José Ángel. "Catastrofismo y retrospección: Hermenéutica narrativa en la biología y en la historia." Paper read at the conference "Beyond Borders." Universidad de Zaragoza, 2000.* Online edition at Net Sight de José Angel García Landa (2004):

http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/catastrofismo.htm

2014

_____. "Catastrofismo y retrospección: Hermenéutica narrativa en la biología y en la historia." iPaper at Academia.edu 19 April 2010.*

https://www.academia.edu/229646/

2015

_____. "Catastrophism and Retrospection / Catastrofismo y retrospección: Hermenéutica narrativa en la biología y en la historia." Online PDF (in Spanish) at Social Science Research Network 20 April 2010.*

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1592851

2010

_____. " Catastrofismo y retrospección: Hermenéutica narrativa en la biología y en la historia." PDF en red en Zaguán 19 April 2010.*

http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/4558

2010

_____. "Catastrofismo y retrospección." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 19 April 2010.*

http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2010/04/catastrofismo-y-retrospeccion.html

2010

_____. "Catastrofismo y retrospección." ResearchGate 2 June 2014.*

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228175448

2014

_____. "Catastrophism and Hindsight: Narrative Hermeneutics in Biology and in Historiography." In Beyond Borders: Redefining Generic and Ontological Boundaries. Ed. Ramón Plo-Alastrue and María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro. (Anglistische Forschungen, 303). Heidelberg: Winter, 2002. 105-119.*

_____. "Catastrophism and Hindsight: Narrative Hermeneutics in Biology and in History." iPaper at Academia.edu 19 April 2010.*

https://www.academia.edu/229638

2015

_____. "Catastrophism and Hindsight: Narrative Hermeneutics in Biology and in History." Online PDF at Social Science Research Network 19 April 2010.*

http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1592520

2010

_____. "Catastrophism and Hindsight: Narrative Hermeneutics in Biology and in History." Online PDF at Zaguán 19 April 2010.*

http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/4557

2010

_____. ("Catástrofes humanitarias"). In García Landa, Blog de notas 29 Dec. 2004.

http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z04.html#catastrofeshumanitarias

2006-07-08

_____. "Revoluciones, y catástrofes, y cataclismos, y muertes masivas." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 8 March 2007.

http://garciala.blogia.com/2007/030801-revoluciones-y-catastrofes-y-cataclismos-y-muertes-masivas.php

2007-04-01

_____. "Narración de la catástrofe." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 21 August 2008. (Barajas plane crash).

http://garciala.blogia.com/2008/082108-narracion-de-la-catastrofe.php

2008

Keen, Ernest. "Paranoia and Cataclysmic Narratives." In Narrative Psychology: The Storied Nature of Human Conduct. Ed. T. R. Sarbin. New York: Praeger, 1986. 174-90.*

Onfray, Michel. Splendeur de la catastrophe: La peinture de Vladimir Vélikovic. Paris: Galilée, 2002.

Catastrophe theory

Achlioptas, D'Souza and Spencer. "Explosive Percolation." Science (2009).

Bernárdez, Enrique. "On the Study of Language with the Tools of Catastrophe Theory." Atlantis 17.1-2 (1995; issued 1997): 261-92.*

Neff, D. S. "Into the Heart of the Heart of the Chronotope: Dialogism, Theoretical Physics and Catastrophe Theory." In Mikhail Bakhtin. Ed. Michael E. Gardiner. London: SAGE, 2002. Vol. 4.

Thom, René. Stabilité structurale et morphogenèse: Essai d'une théorie générale des modèles. Reading MA): W. A. Benjamin, 1972.

_____. Structural Stability and Morphogenesis. Reading (MA): W. A. Benjamin, 1975.

Zeeman, E. C. "The Geometry of Catastrophe." TLS 10 December 1971.

Literature

Sastre, Alfonso. Teoría de las catástrofes. 1993.

Cosmic catastrophes

Alvarez, L. W. "Experimental Evidence that an Asteroid Impact Led to the Extinction of Many Species 65 million Years Ago." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 80 (1982): 627-42.

Alvarez, L. W., W. Alvarez, F. Asaro and H. V. Michel. "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction." Science 208 (1980): 1095-1108.

Alvarez, Walter, T. rex and the Crater of Doom. Rpt. Introd. Carl Zimmer. 2008.

Alvarez, W., and R. A. Muller. "Evidence from Crater Ages for Periodic Impacts on the Earth." Nature 308 (1984): 718-20.

Asimov, Isaac. Frontiers. Essays. Nightfall, Inc., cop. 1987, 1988, 1989.

_____. Fronteras y otros ensayos. Trans. Josep Ferrer i Aleu. Barcelona; Edicones B, 1994.*

"Big Bang in Antarctica: Killer Crater Found Under Ice." ScienceDaily 1 June 2006. (Permian-Triassic Extinction).

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060601174729.htm

2006-11-12

Bostrom, Nick, co-ed. Global Catastrophic Risks. Oxford: OUP, 2008.

D'Hondt, Steven. "The Evidence for a Meteorite Impact at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary." In Extinción y registro fósil / Extinction and the Fossil Record. Ed. Eustoquio Molina. Zaragoza: Seminario Interdisciplinar de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1994. 75-96.*

Davis, M., P. Hut and R. A. Muller. "Extinction of Species by Periodic Comet Showers." Nature 308 (1984): 715-17.

Ernstson, Kord. "Looking for geological catastrophes: the Azuara impact case." In Extinción y registro fósil / Extinction and the Fossil Record. Ed. Eustoquio Molina. Zaragoza: Seminario Interdisciplinar de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1994.*

García Landa, José Ángel. "El fin de la vida, el fin de la vida y el fin de la vida." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 4 July 2006.

http://garciala.blogia.com/2006/070401-el-fin-de-la-vida-el-fin-de-la-vida-y-el-fin-de-la-vida.php

2006-07-28

_____. "Huesos de dinosaurio en la Luna." In García Landa, Vanity Fea Dec. 2007.

http://garciala.blogia.com/2007/122402-huesos-de-dinosaurio-en-la-luna.php

2008

Gould, Stephen J. "The Belt of an Asteroid." (Mass extinction). In Gould, In Gould, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990. 320-31.*

_____. "El padrino del desastre." In Gould, "Brontosaurus" y la nalga del ministro. Trans. Joandomènec Ros. (Biblioteca Divulgación Científica). Barcelona: Planeta DeAgostini, 2008. 422-38.* (William Whiston, comets, catastrophes).

"Impact Theory Gains New Supporters." Arizona Republic 3 March 2001.

Lewis, John S. Rain of Iron and Ice: The Very Real Threat of Comet and Asteroid Bombardment. Reading (MA): Addison-Wesley, 1996.

Zimmer, Carl, and Peter Ward. "Science Saturday: Mass Extinctions." Video dialogue. Bloggingheads.tv 15 Dec. 2007.

http://www.bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/7431

2007

Films

Armageddon. Dir. Michael Bay. Cast: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, Keith David, Steve Buscemi, Owen Wilson, William Fichtner, Udo Kier, Michael Clarke Duncan, narr. Charlton Heston. Panavision. USA, 1998.*

Deep Impact.

When Worlds Collide. Dir. Rudolph Maté. Screenplay by Sydney Boehm, based on the novel by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie. Cast: Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hanson, John Hoyt, Larry Keating, Judith Ames, Stephen Chase, Frank Cady, Hayden Rorke, Sandro Giglio. Prod. George Pal. Technicolor. USA: Paramount, 1951. Spanish DVD: Paramount Home Entertainement Spain, 2004.*

Literature

Benford, Gregory, and William Rotsler. Shiva Descending. Novel. 1980.

Clarke, Arthur C. "The Hammer of God." Novella. Time 140.27 (Special issue: Beyond the Year 2000 , Fall 1992).

_____. The Hammer of God. Novel. London: Gollancz, 1993.

Niven, Larry, and Jerry Pournelle. Lucifer's Hammer. SF novel. 1977.

Wylie, Philip, and Edwin Balmer. When Worlds Collide. SF novel. 1933.

See also Asteroids; Comets.

Man-made catastrophes

Bernstein, Michael André. "Homage to the Extreme: The Shoah and the Rhetoric of Catastrophe." TLS 6 March 1998: 6-8.

Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.

Jorge, Judith de. "Científicos advierten de un colapso planetario inminente e irreversible." ABC 6 June 2012.*

http://www.abc.es/20120606/ciencia/abci-cientificos-advierten-colapso-planetario-201206061209.html

2012

Kolbert, Elizabeth. Field Notes from a Catastrophe.

_____. Man, Nature, and Climate Change.

_____. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. New York: Henry Holt, 2014.*

Kunstler, J. H. The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty- First Century. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005.

Stableford, Brian. "Man-Made Catastrophes." In The End of the World. Ed. Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1983.

Literature

Harrison, Harry. Skyfall. London: Faber and Faber, 1976.

_____. Skyfall. (Panther Science Fiction). London: Granada-Panther, 1985.*

Lapierre, Dominique, and Javier Moro. Era medianoche en Bhopal.

McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Knopf, 2006.

_____. The Road. New York: Random House-Vintage International, 2007.*

Video

Peak Oil: Distractions and the REAL Catastrophe Directly Ahead. YouTube (MrLordZorde) 27 Jan. 2013.*

http://youtu.be/G396JRzv0Pw

2013

Natural catastrophes

"Aerial Blast Rocks Towns." Sydney Morning Herald 29 Sept. 1969.

"Ancient Ashfall Creates Pompeii of Prehistoric Animals." National Geographic (Jan. 1981).

Ballard, J. G. "Cataclysms and Dooms." In The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Ed. Brian Ash. London: Pan, 1977.

Gould, Stephen J. "Jove's Thunderbolts." In Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History. 1996. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997. 159-69.* (Catastrophes).

_____. "Los rayos de Júpiter."In Gould, Un dinosaurio en un pajar. Barcelona: Crítica, 1997. 171-81.*

_____. "The Wheel of Fortune and the Wedge of Progress." In Gould, Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History. 1993. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994. 300-312.* (Complexity, extinction, catastrophes).

_____. "La rueda de la fortuna y la cuña del progreso." In Gould, Ocho cerditos: Reflexiones sobre historia natural. Barcelona: Grijalbo Mondadori-Crítica, 1994. 285-96.*

_____. "Tires to Sandals." In Gould, Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History. 1993. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994. 313-24.* (Complexity, catastrophes).

_____. "De neumáticos a sandalias." In Gould, Ocho cerditos: Reflexiones sobre historia natural. Barcelona: Grijalbo Mondadori-Crítica, 1994. 297-308.*

"The Great Swine Flu Epidemic of 1918." American Heritage (June 1976): 82.

Kelvin (Lord). "The 'Doctrine of Uniformity' in Geology Briefly Refuted." Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 5 (1866): 512-13.

Olivares Rivera, Carmen. "Premoniciones catastróficas en la ciencia-ficción." Miscelánea 4 (1984): 179-90.*

Pomian, K. "Catastrophes et déterminisme." Libre 4 (1978): 115-36.

Powell, James Lawrence. Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern Geology. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1998.

"Survival of the Luckiest." New York Times Book Review 22 Oct. 1989.

Ward, Peter D. On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions. New York: Freeman, 1992.

_____. Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future. Collins, 2007.

Ward, Peter, and Carl Zimmer. "Science Saturday: Mass Extinctions." Video dialogue. Bloggingheads.tv 15 Dec. 2007.

http://www.bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/7431

2007

Whewell, William. Review of Principles of Geology, by Charles Lyell. Quarterly Review 47 (1832): 103-32.

Internet resources

"Toba Catastrophe Theory." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

2011

Films

Civilization Lost. H2 documentary. YouTube

http://youtu.be/etmhB2ZwqJs

2014

Contagion. Dir. Steven Soderbergh. Cast: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sanaa Lathan, Jennifer Ehle, Bryan Cranston, Elliott Gould. 2011.*

See also Disasters; Earthquakes; Floods; Volcanoes; Drought.