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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493744003321

Autore

Caracciolo Marco

Titolo

Narrating nonhuman spaces : form, story, and experience beyond anthropocentrism / / edited by Marco Caracciolo, Marlene Karlsson Marcussen, David Rodriguez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2022

New York, New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-00-318186-4

1-000-44155-5

1-003-18186-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 pages)

Collana

Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment

Disciplina

809.39372

Soggetti

Apocalypse in literature

Ecology in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Recent debates about the Anthropocene have prompted a re-negotiation of the relationship between human subjectivity and nonhuman matter within a wide range of disciplines. This collection builds on the assumption that our understanding of the nonhuman world is bound up with the experience of space: thinking about and with nonhuman spaces destabilizes human-scale assumptions. Literary form affords this kind of nonanthropocentric experience; one role of the critic in the Anthropocene is to foreground the function of space and description in challenging the conventional link between narrative and human (inter)subjectivity. Bringing together New Formalism, ecocriticism, and narrative theory, the included essays demonstrate that literature can transgress the strong and long-established boundary of the human frame that literary and narrative scholarship clings to. The focus is firmly on the contemporary but with strategic samplings in earlier cultural texts (the American transcendentalists, modernist fiction) that anticipate present-day anxieties about the nonhuman,



while at the same time offering important conceptual tools for working through them.