Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic - Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Release date:	November 2020
First published:	2019
Editors:	Julius Greve • Florian Zappe
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-028118-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	3-03-028118-3
Barcode:	9783030281182

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