Entangled life in twenty-first-century fiction : a multi-scalar poetics / Liliane Campos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campos, Liliane, Author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture.

Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Ecocriticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 223 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Liliane Campos argues that contemporary fiction is shaping a new, multi-scalar view of life. In the early twenty-first century, humans face complex relations of dependency with the invisibly small and the ungraspably huge, from the viral to the planetary. Entangled Life examines how Anglophone fiction imagines this ecological interdependence. It outlines an emergent poetics across a range of genres, including realist fiction, science-fiction, weird fiction and dystopian fiction. Arguing that literary form performs epistemic and ethical work, Campos analyses the rhetorical strategies through which these stories connect human and nonhuman scales. She shows that fiction uses three recurrent devices - critical synecdoche, ontological metalepsis and scalar irony - to shape our awareness of other scales and forms of life, and our response-ability towards them. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2026).

ISBN:

1-009-69938-5

1-009-69942-3

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access