LEADER 03602nam 2200493Ia 450 001 9910832984603321 005 20240102165952.0 010 $a1-350-29606-6 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350296060 035 $a(CKB)5590000001145964 035 $a(OCoLC)1382715230 035 $a(UkLoBP)BP9781350296060BC 035 $a(ScCtBLL)4bf14513-38c3-48f2-b417-94b6b4052573 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000001145964 100 $a20230617d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aAnthropocene Realism$eFiction in the Age of Climate Change /$fJohn Thieme 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2023. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing (UK),$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (224 pages) 225 1 $aEnvironmental Cultures 311 $a1-350-29603-1 327 $a1.Introduction 2. Weather as Everything : Social Realism in Barbara Kingsolver s Flight Behavior 3.Seeking The Perfect Story : Metajournalistic Realism in Helon Habila s Oil on Water 4.Apocalypse Now? Visceral Realism in Liz Jensen s The Rapture 5.Tracing Genealogies: Circumstantial Realism in Annie Proulx s Barkskins 6. Trees Are Social Creatures : Animist Realism in Richard Powers The Overstory 7.It s Not Funny: Comic Realism in Ian McEwan s Solar 8.Beyond the Anthropocene: Testimonial Realism in Indra Sinha s Animal s People 9.Nordic Noir: Urban Realism in Antti Tuomainen s The Healer 10. Everything Change : Speculative Realism in Margaret Atwood s MaddAddam Trilogy 11. Outside the Range of the Probable ? Picaresque Realism in Amitav Ghosh s Gun Island 12.Conclusion Bibliography 330 $aExamining the challenges faced by novelists writing realist fiction in the age of climate change, this open access book considers the various ways in which contemporary writers have evolved new and transformed modes of realism to grapple with the problems of living on an endangered planet. Focusing on fiction set in the long present a term used to cover the actual present, the near future and an historic past that interacts with the present Thieme argues that long-present realism negates the possibility of deferring engagement with the climate crisis on the grounds that it is a future threat. Thieme examines work by twelve novelists: Margaret Atwood, James Bradley, Amitav Ghosh, Helon Habila, Liz Jensen, Barbara Kingsolver, Ian McEwan, Richard Powers, Annie Proulx, Indra Sinha, Antii Tuomainen and Wu Ming-Yi. He provides important new insights into the methods these writers use to convey the urgency of the climate crisis and how their work can inform our understandings of the Anthropocene activity that endangers life on Earth. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched. 410 0$aEnvironmental Cultures. 606 $aEnvironmental education 606 $aLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers$2bicssc 606 $aLiterary studies: from c 1900 -$2bicssc 606 $aLiterary studies: post-colonial literature$2bicssc 615 0$aEnvironmental education. 615 7$aLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers 615 7$aLiterary studies: from c 1900 - 615 7$aLiterary studies: post-colonial literature 700 $aThieme$b John$cauthor, 801 0$bUkLoBP 801 1$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910832984603321 997 $aUNINA