Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman (eBook, ePUB)

Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises
Redaktion: Stephan, Matthias; Borkfelt, Sune

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward. Bringing insights from the field of literary animal studies, a diverse and international group of scholars examine literary contributions to the ecological framing of human-nonhuman relationships. Collectively, the contributors to this edited collection contemplate the role of literature in the setting of environmental agendas and in determining humanity's path forward in the company of nonhuman others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666903775
• Artikelnr.: 64062498

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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: