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020 _a9781138543744
082 0 0 _a809.9335
_bVerL
100 1 _aVermeulen, Pieter
245 1 0 _aLiterature and the Anthropocene /
_cPieter Vermeulen
260 _aOxon :
_bRoutledge,
_cc2020.
300 _aviii, 205p.
490 0 _aLiterature and Contemporary Thought
505 0 _aIntroduction: Naming, Telling, Writing- the Anthropocene -- Anthropocene Agencies. Forms, Lives, Forms of Life -- Genres, Media, Worlds -- Objects, Matters, Things -- Anthropocene Temporalities. Dominations -- Emergencies -- Residues.
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aEcocriticism
650 0 _aEcology in Literature
650 0 _aEnvironmentalism in Literature
650 0 _aNature in Literature
650 0 _aHuman Ecology in Literature
650 0 _aGlobal Environmental Change
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