ScholarWorks@성균관대학교

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The complexities of ice have filled the imagination of writers across genres and acrosstime, resulting in a body of material that shows both fascination and perplexity. Acomparative sampling of salient literary examples with scientific discussions of ice isrevealing. Ice is (and does) many things: ice preserves and kills; is static but moves; iscold but burns; evokes both joy and sadness; seems both permanent and fleeting; andso on. In some ways, to understand ice means to feel it and its complexities. Thisarticle extends our intellectual feeling for and visceral understanding of ice by showingthe many (sometimes contradictory) layers of our experience of it. The argumentthroughout is that comprehensions of ice really only take form through experiences ofit, experiences that science and literature struggle to convey: the sight and feel of it inits beginnings and its endings; the knowledge of how it preserves and how it destroys;and the sheer wonder (sometimes horror) of it, among other things-and it issomewhat urgent that we start understanding better because the increasing rapidity ofthe disappearance of global ice is having dire consequences.

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