Anglophone literature and culture in the anthropocene / edited by Gina Comos and Caroline Rosenthal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Comos, Gina, editor.

Rosenthal, Caroline, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Nature in literature.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

Defined as an ecological epoch in which humans have the most impact on the environment, the Anthropocene poses challenging questions to literary and cultural studies. If, in the Anthropocene, the distinction between nature and culture increasingly collapses, we have to rethink our division between historiography and natural history, as well as notions of the subject and of agency since the Enlightenment.This anthology collects papers from literary and cultural studies that address various issues surrounding the topic. Even though the new epoch seems to require a collective self-understanding as a unified species, readings of the Anthropocene and conceptualizations of human-nature relationships largely differ in Anglophone literatures and cultures. These differing perspectives are reflected in the structure of this book, which is divided into five separate sections: the introductory part familiarizes the reader with the concept and the challenges it poses for the humanities in general and for literary and cultural studies in particular, and the three following sections combine broader, more theoretical, essays with in-depth critical readings of US, Canadian, and Australian representations of the Anthropocene in literature. The final part moves beyond literature to include media theoretical perspectives and discussions of photography and cinema in the Anthropocene.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Gina Comos, Caroline Rosenthal

Exploring narrative forms of the anthropocene. The challenge of the anthropocene and the sustainability of texts / Hubert Zapf

Narratives of the anthropocene in interdisciplinary perspective / Gabriele Dürbeck

USA. American ecocriticism and the literature of the anthropocene / Gina Comos

Climate, the anthropocene, and the early American republic / Catrin Gersdorf

Towards the reinhabitation of the soil: On becoming earthbound in Gary Snyder's Turtle Island / Florian Wagner

Canada. The nature(s) of ecocriticism and ecopoetry in Canada / Caroline Rosenthal

Indigenous literature and the anthropocene: Two case studies / Hanna Strass-Senol

Anthropocene matters: Stories of entanglement / Dunja M. Mohr

Australia. Anthropocene and the end of the world: Apocalypse, dystopia, and other disasters / Kylie Crane

The end of words at the world's end: An anthropocene reading of David Malouf's "The crab fest" / Ruth Barratt-Peacock

Visualizing the anthropocene: Media theory, film, and photography. Anthropocenic earth mediality: On scaling and deep time in the anthropocene / Philip Hüpkes

On photography in the anthropocene: Surface views and imagetexts by Henry J. Fair and Tom McCarthy / Verena Laschinger

Ecocinema and ecophilosophy in Canada / Angela Krewani

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-3407-3

OCLC:

1149100452