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Physical model research on energy dissipation downstream of the new weirs of Denderleeuw in Belgium Flanders Hydraulics
During the design of the new weir lock complex at Denderleeuw on the river Dender in Belgium Flanders Hydraulics Research performed physical model tests for the hydraulic design of the stilling basin of the new weirs. Three different downstream bottom levels as well as the presence of a stilling basin were tested for three different hydraulic conditions. The bottom level of the stilling basin was varied, as well as the slope of the end sill ...
The weird and the meta in Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts Ghent University
Originating in the works of early twentieth-century authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood, weird fiction is experiencing a renaissance in contemporary literature. Several scholars have presented this literary mode as uniquely suited to speak to the anxieties generated by the current ecological crisis. In this essay, we examine Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (2019) as part of a wave of recent works that mark a sharp departure ...
Brave new weird : anthropocene monsters in Jeff VanderMeerU+2019s "The Southern Reach" Ghent University
‘Age of Lovecraft’?— Anthropocene Monsters in (New) Weird Narrative Ghent University
This paper considers whether the twenty-first-century resurgence of H. P. Lovecraft and weird fiction can be read as a conceptual parallel to the Anthropocene epoch, taking Carl H. Sederholm and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s The Age of Lovecraftas a starting-point. The assumption is that the two ‘ages’ are historically and thematically linked through the ‘monsters’ that inhabit them; monsters that include—but are not limited to—extensions, ...
'Through the eyes of Area X' : (Dis)locating ecological hope via new Weird spatiality Ghent University
With Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy (2014) as a case study, this chapter argues that the new weird plays with narrative perspectives and other literary strategies in order to interrogate and evolve old weird tropes and conventions. In this way, the new weird moves beyond nihilism and cosmic dread, and therefore stands to generate a more hopeful response to the environmental crisis. Both old and new weird spatiality focus on the ...