This collection asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward.
This collection asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward.
Matthias Stephan is associate professor at Aarhus University, coordinator at the Centre for Studies in Otherness, author of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century, and editor of Otherness: Essays and Studies. Sune Borkfelt is lecturer at Aarhus University and author of Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity.
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Part I: Past Narratives of Environmental Crisis Chapter 1: The Peculiar Associations of Melville's "Encantadas": Nature and National Allegory Kristen R. Egan Chapter 2: Making a Difference? Richard Jefferies' After London, E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," and Climate Change Fiction Adrian Tait Chapter 3: Stories of "Being-with" Other Animals: A Case of Humans and Horses Mary Trachsel Part II: Witnessing Chapter 4: Animal Texts: How Coyote America and American Wolf Embody the Literary Animal Through A Cross-Disciplinary Approach Lauren E. Perry Chapter 5: Beautiful and Sublime: Embracing Otherness in Mary Oliver's Ecopoetry Anastasia Cardone Chapter 6: The Sea's Witness: Narration, Texturisation and Reader Responsibility in Rachel Carson's Oceanalia Lauren O'Mahony Part 3: Nonhuman Agency/Representation of the Nonhuman Chapter 7: The Posthuman Return: Transformation through Stillness in Richard Powers's The Overstory Owen Harry Chapter 8: Classifying Monsters Vera Veldhuizen Chapter 9:
Part I: Past Narratives of Environmental Crisis Chapter 1: The Peculiar Associations of Melville's "Encantadas": Nature and National Allegory Kristen R. Egan Chapter 2: Making a Difference? Richard Jefferies' After London, E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," and Climate Change Fiction Adrian Tait Chapter 3: Stories of "Being-with" Other Animals: A Case of Humans and Horses Mary Trachsel Part II: Witnessing Chapter 4: Animal Texts: How Coyote America and American Wolf Embody the Literary Animal Through A Cross-Disciplinary Approach Lauren E. Perry Chapter 5: Beautiful and Sublime: Embracing Otherness in Mary Oliver's Ecopoetry Anastasia Cardone Chapter 6: The Sea's Witness: Narration, Texturisation and Reader Responsibility in Rachel Carson's Oceanalia Lauren O'Mahony Part 3: Nonhuman Agency/Representation of the Nonhuman Chapter 7: The Posthuman Return: Transformation through Stillness in Richard Powers's The Overstory Owen Harry Chapter 8: Classifying Monsters Vera Veldhuizen Chapter 9:
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