Modernism and the Anthropocene (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity's increasing domination of the natural world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978779754
• Artikelnr.: 74847526

Autorenporträt

Jon Hegglund is associate professor of English at Washington State University. John McIntyre is associate professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island.

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