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Anthropocene Affordances Scale, Narrative Form, and the Human in US-American Literature Lena Pfeifer
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pfeifer, Lena <p>Lena Pfeifer, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Literary Ecologies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropocene.
- Narration.
- United States of America.
- Literary Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Anthropocene.
- Narration.
- United States of America.
- Literary Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- tw11244 Pfeifer - ANTHROPOCENE AFFORDANCES Scale, Narrative Form, and the Human in US-American Literature
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2025
- Biography/History:
- Lena Pfeifer received her doctorate in American Studies/Environmental Humanities at the University of Würzburg, where she has also been working as a research assistant since 2021. Her research focuses on environmental writing of the 20th and 21st centuries, discourses of the Anthropocene, climate fiction, new formalism, and nuclear cultures.
- Summary:
- The current historical moment, often referred to as the Anthropocene, is defined by profound human influence on the planetary system. Lena Pfeifer examines how contemporary US-American literature negotiates the political, ethical, and epistemological challenges posed by the Anthropocene. Connecting new formalist approaches with theories of scale, she develops the concept of »Anthropocene affordances« as a new methodological framework for analyzing narrative responses to the recent ecological crisis that reconfigure conventional forms and narrative strategies to critically discuss the role of the human as a geological force.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Anthropocene Narratives and Affordances
- 1. A Theory of Anthropocene Affordances
- 2. Narrating Global Climate Regimes
- 3. Narrating Civilizational and Geological Collapse
- 4. Narrating a Porous Human Subject
- Conclusion: Rethinking the Anthropocene as Rupture
- Figure Index
- Bibliography
- Notes:
- [Auflage - Neueauflage]
- ISBN:
- 3-8394-3571-4
- 9783839435717
- OCLC:
- 1561139072
- Publisher Number:
- 9783839435717
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