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Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic - Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic - Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
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This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within
the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and
analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and
related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as
crucial for any understanding of current forms of "weird" and
"fantastic" literature and culture. Given their focus on the
culturally marginal, unknown, and "other," these genres figure as
diagnostic modes of storytelling, outlining the latent anxieties
and social dynamics that define a culture's "structure of feeling"
at a given historical moment. The contributions in this volume map
the long and continuous tradition of weird and fantastic fiction as
a seismograph for eco-geographical turmoil from the nineteenth to
the twenty-first century, offering innovative and insightful
ecocritical readings of H. P. Lovecraft, Harriet Prescott Spofford,
China Mieville, N. K. Jemisin, Thomas Ligotti, and Jeff VanderMeer,
among others.
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