Modernism and the Anthropocene

Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature
Herausgeber: Hegglund, Jon; Mcintyre, John

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together work from twelve leading scholars in the field of ecocriticism, Modernism and the Anthropocene explores the diverse ways that early twentieth-century literature initiated far-reaching conversations about the material and non-human world.

Produktdetails

• Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781498555401
• ISBN-10: 1498555403
• Artikelnr.: 67821289

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jon Hegglund and John McIntyre - Contributions by Joseph Anderton; Emily Chester; Stuart Christie; Julia Daniel; Ted Howell; Jessica Martell; Robert Savino Oventile; Joshua Schuster; Michael Sloane; Charles Tung; Timothy Wientzen and Glenn Willm

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Modernism and the Emergent Anthropocene
Part I: Modernism-Anthropocene Encounters
Chapter 1: Revolt against the Anthropos: The Human-Environment Conflicts in
D.H. Lawrence
Chapter 2: Vorticism in an Age of Climate Change
Chapter 3: Hart Crane: A Poet of Our Climate
Chapter 4: "What kind of creature uttered it...?": A Stratigraphy of
Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable
Part II: Planetary Time and Space
Chapter 5: "The Modernist Cosmos: Olaf Stapledon, Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin, and the Crisis of Species
Chapter 6: Modernist Planets and Planetary Modernism
Chapter 7: Early Ecology and Climate Change in the Future Histories of H.G.
Wells and Olaf Stapledon
Chapter 8: Second Modernism and the Aesthetics of Temporal Scale
Part III: Writing Materials
Chapter 9: Comics: Art of the Anthropocene
Chapter 10: Modernism on Ice: Marianne Moore and the Glacial Imagination
Chapter 11: Modernism's Plastic Futures
Chapter 12: Sky and Smoke: Literary Atmospherics in Cary and Ibuse