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New ecological realisms : post-apocalyptic fiction and contemporary theory / Monika Kaup.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaup, Monika, author.
- Series:
- Speculative realism.
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Speculative realism
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Apocalypse in literature.
- Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Fiction.
- Fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- Realism.
- Realism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Monika Kaup pairs post-apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, José Saramago, Octavia Butler and Cormac McCarthy with new realist theories from Bruno Latour, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Markus Gabriel, Jean-Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis. She shows that, just as new realist theory can illuminate post-apocalyptic literature, post-apocalyptic literature can illuminate new theories of the real. Kaup showcases a context-based concept of the real. She argues that new realisms of complex and embedded wholes, actor-networks and ecologies - not the old realisms of isolated parts and things - represent the most promising escape from the impasses of constructivism and positivism.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 New Ecological Realisms and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
- 2 The New Realism of the Factish and the Political Ecology of Humans and Non-Humans: Bruno Latour and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy
- 3 The Ontology of Knowledge as the Enaction of Mind and World: Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela’s Autopoietic Theory and José Saramago’s Blindness
- 4 Apocalypse as Field of Sense: Markus Gabriel’s Ontology of Fields of Sense and Octavia Butler’s Parable Series
- 5 New Phenomenologies after Poststructuralism (Jean-Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 6, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-8312-7
- 1-3995-0211-5
- 1-4744-8311-9
- OCLC:
- 1252425572
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