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Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 284 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 227x160x27 mm, weight: 612 g
  • Serija: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
  • Išleidimo metai: 23-May-2022
  • Leidėjas: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1666903760
  • ISBN-13: 9781666903768
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 284 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 227x160x27 mm, weight: 612 g
  • Serija: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
  • Išleidimo metai: 23-May-2022
  • Leidėjas: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1666903760
  • ISBN-13: 9781666903768
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Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward. Bringing insights from the field of literary animal studies, a diverse and international group of scholars examine literary contributions to the ecological framing of human-nonhuman relationships. Collectively, the contributors to this edited collection contemplate the role of literature in the setting of environmental agendas and in determining humanitys path forward in the company of nonhuman others.

Recenzijos

Ranging from the nineteenth century to contemporary climate change fiction and embracing a variety of literary genres and geographical contexts, the essays in this collection offer a wide gamut of perspectives on how literature may probe nonhuman ways of being in the world and question anthropocentric assumptions. The collection positions debates on literature and climate change within a longer history of Western thinking on the nonhumana provocative and valuable move in today's scholarly landscape. Engaging with themes including animal experience, nuclear anxieties, and environmental activism, the authors convincingly show that literature is no mere illustration of posthumanist ideas but that its very form can perform philosophical tensions and positions in transformative ways. -- Marco Caracciolo, Ghent University

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction: Writing the Nonhuman amidst Environmental Crises 1(30)
Matthias Stephan
Sune Borkfelt
PART I PAST NARRATIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
31(58)
Chapter 1 The Peculiar Associations of Melville's "Encantadas": Nature and National Allegory
33(20)
Kristen R. Egan
Chapter 2 Making a Difference? Richard Jefferies's After London, E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," and Climate Change Fiction
53(16)
Adrian Tait
Chapter 3 Stories of "Being-with" Other Animals: A Case of Humans and Horses
69(20)
Mary Trachsel
PART II WITNESSING
89(56)
Chapter 4 Animal Texts: How Coyote America and American Wolf Embody the Literary Animal through a Cross-Disciplinary Approach
91(18)
Lauren E. Perry
Chapter 5 Beautiful and Sublime: Embracing Otherness in Mary Oliver's Ecopoetry
109(20)
Anastasia Cardone
Chapter 6 The Sea's Witness: Narration, Texturisation, and Reader Responsibility in Rachel Carson's Oceanalia
129(16)
Lauren O'Mahony
PART III NONHUMAN AGENCY/REPRESENTATION OF THE NONHUMAN
145(58)
Chapter 7 The Posthuman Return: Transformation through Stillness in Richard Powers's The Overstory
147(18)
Owen Harry
Chapter 8 Classifying Monsters
165(18)
Vera Veldhuizen
Chapter 9 `"There Isn't Anything That Isn't Political.' It's an Expression That Sounds Human, but Everything in Her Voice Indicates That She Is Not": The Nonhuman in Ellen Van Neerven's `Water'
183(20)
Clare Archer-Lean
PART IV MUTATION AND POST-APOCALYPSE
203(54)
Chapter 10 "We've Made Meat for Everyone!": The Ideology of Distinction and Becoming Flesh in Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Joseph D'Lacey's Meat
205(16)
Samantha Hind
Chapter 11 "There Would Be Monsters, Some Hopeful": Viral Agencies and Mutational Posthuman Politics in Post-Millennial Science Fiction
221(18)
Clare Wall
Chapter 12 "A Reign of Community and Harmony": Envisioning a Multispecies Society in a Post-Nuclear World
239(18)
Elizabeth Tavella
Index 257(12)
About the Editors 269(2)
About the Contributors 271
Matthias Stephan is lecturer at Aarhus University, coordinator at the Centre for Studies in Otherness, author of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century, and editor of Otherness: Essays and Studies.

Sune Borkfelt is lecturer at Aarhus University and author of Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity.