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  1. Narrating nonhuman spaces
    form, story, and experience beyond anthropocentrism
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY

    "Recent debates about the Anthropocene have prompted a re-negotiation of the relationship between human subjectivity and nonhuman matter within a wide range of disciplines. This collection builds on the assumption that our understanding of the... more

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    "Recent debates about the Anthropocene have prompted a re-negotiation of the relationship between human subjectivity and nonhuman matter within a wide range of disciplines. This collection builds on the assumption that our understanding of the nonhuman world is bound up with the experience of space: thinking about and with nonhuman spaces destabilizes human-scale assumptions. Literary form affords this kind of nonanthropocentric experience; one role of the critic in the Anthropocene is to foreground the function of space and description in challenging the conventional link between narrative and human (inter)subjectivity. Bringing together new formalism, ecocriticism, and narrative theory, the included essays demonstrate that literature can transgress the strong and long-established boundary of the human frame that literary and narrative scholarship cling to. The focus is firmly on the contemporary, but with strategic samplings in earlier cultural texts (the American transcendentalists, modernist fiction) that anticipate present-day anxieties about the nonhuman, while at the same time offering important conceptual tools for working through them"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1000441555; 100044158X; 1003181864; 9781000441550; 9781000441581; 9781003181866
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    10.4324/9781003181866
    RVK Categories: EC 1879
    Series: Routledge studies in world literature and the environment
    Subjects: Espace dans la littérature; Fin du monde dans la littérature; Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature; Narration; Voyage; Apocalypse in literature; Ecology in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Narration (Rhetoric); Place (Philosophy) in literature; Space in literature; Travel writing; Apocalypse in literature; Ecology in literature; Literature (Modernism); Narration (Rhetoric); Place (Philosophy) in literature; Space in literature; Travel writing; Literatur; Erzähltheorie; Anthropozentrismus; Raum <Motiv>; Ecocriticism
    Other subjects: 1800-1899; Essay; Electronic books; Critiques littéraires; Essais; essays; Essays; Essays; History; Literary criticism; Literary criticism
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    Introduction / Marco Caracciolo, Marlene Marcussen, and David Rodriguez -- Objects and the resources of description. Containment and empathy in Katherine Mansfield's and Virginia Woolf's short stories / Laura Oulanne -- Floating air-solid furniture : vibrant spaces in Virginia Woolf's "Time passes" / Marlene Karlsson Marcussen -- The descriptive turn in German nature-oriented Neue Sachlichkeit (1913-1933) : an essay on nonhuman literary genres / Michael Karlsson Pedersen -- Catastrophic narrative environments. Nonhuman presence and ontological instability in twenty-first-century New York fiction / Lieven Ameel -- Seasonal feelings : reading Paolo Bacigalupi's The windup girl during winter depression / Kaisa Kortekallio -- Imagining posthuman environments in the Anthropocene : the function of space in post-apocalyptic climate change fiction / Carolin Gebauer -- "It wants to become real and can only become prose" : Anthropocenic focalization in 10:04 and The world without us / David Rodriguez -- Scales and Limits of Narrative. Maarit Verronen's Monomaniacs of the Anthropocene : scaling the nonhuman in contemporary Finnish fiction / Sarianna Kankkunen -- Plotting the nonhuman : the geometry of desire in contemporary "lab lit" / Marco Caracciolo -- Lithic space-time in lyric : narrating the poetic Anthropocene / Brian J. McAllister -- Narrating the "great outdoors" / Ridvan Askin -- Inside the great outdoors / Line Henriksen

  2. Narrating nonhuman spaces
    form, story, and experience beyond anthropocentrism
    Contributor: Caracciolo, Marco (Herausgeber); Marcussen, Marlene (Herausgeber); Rodriguez, David (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "Recent debates about the Anthropocene have prompted a re-negotiation of the relationship between human subjectivity and nonhuman matter within a wide range of disciplines. This collection builds on the assumption that our understanding of the... more

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    "Recent debates about the Anthropocene have prompted a re-negotiation of the relationship between human subjectivity and nonhuman matter within a wide range of disciplines. This collection builds on the assumption that our understanding of the nonhuman world is bound up with the experience of space: thinking about and with nonhuman spaces destabilizes human-scale assumptions. Literary form affords this kind of nonanthropocentric experience; one role of the critic in the Anthropocene is to foreground the function of space and description in challenging the conventional link between narrative and human (inter)subjectivity. Bringing together new formalism, ecocriticism, and narrative theory, the included essays demonstrate that literature can transgress the strong and long-established boundary of the human frame that literary and narrative scholarship cling to. The focus is firmly on the contemporary, but with strategic samplings in earlier cultural texts (the American transcendentalists, modernist fiction) that anticipate present-day anxieties about the nonhuman, while at the same time offering important conceptual tools for working through them"--...

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Caracciolo, Marco (Herausgeber); Marcussen, Marlene (Herausgeber); Rodriguez, David (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003181866; 1003181864; 9781000441550; 1000441555; 9781000441581; 100044158X
    Series: Routledge studies in world literature and the environment
    Subjects: Literatur; Raum <Motiv>; Anthropozentrismus; Ecocriticism; Erzähltheorie; Space in literature; Ecology in literature; Apocalypse in literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Literature (Modernism); Travel writing
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Includes bibliographical references and index