"The Anthropocene has fundamentally changed the way we think about our relation to nonhuman life and to the planet. This book is the first to critically survey how the Anthropocene is enriching the study of literature and inspiring contemporary poetry and fiction. Engaging with topics such as g...

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1. Verfasser:	Vermeulen, Pieter 1980- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London ; New York Routledge 2020
Schriftenreihe:	Literature and contemporary thought
Schlagworte:	LITERARY CRITICISM / General / bisacsh Ecocriticism Ecology in literature Environmentalism in literature Nature in literature Human ecology in literature Global environmental change Literatur Anthropozän
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Zusammenfassung:	"The Anthropocene has fundamentally changed the way we think about our relation to nonhuman life and to the planet. This book is the first to critically survey how the Anthropocene is enriching the study of literature and inspiring contemporary poetry and fiction. Engaging with topics such as genre, life, extinction, memory, infrastructure, energy, and the future, the book makes a compelling case for literature's unique contribution to contemporary environmental thought. It pays attention to literature's imaginative and narrative resources, and also to its appeal to the emotions and its relation to the material world. As the Anthropocene enjoins us to read the signals the planet is sending and to ponder the traces we leave on the Earth, it is also, this book argues, a literary problem. Literature and the Anthropocene maps key debates and introduces the often difficult vocabulary for capturing the entanglement of human and nonhuman lives in an insightful way. Alternating between accessible discussions of prominent theories and concise readings of major works of Anthropocene literature, the book serves as an indispensable guide to this exciting new subfield for academics and students of literature and the environmental humanities"--
Beschreibung:	Introduction: Naming, Telling, Writing- the Anthropocene -- Anthropocene Agencies. Forms, Lives, Forms of Life -- Genres, Media, Worlds -- Objects, Matters, Things -- Anthropocene Temporalities. Dominations -- Emergencies -- Residues
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (vi, 205 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781351005425 9781351005401 9781351005395 9781351005418
DOI:	10.4324/9781351005425