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Recent debates about the Anthropocene have prompted a
re-negotiation of the relationship between human subjectivity and
nonhuman matter within a wide range of disciplines. This collection
builds on the assumption that our understanding of the nonhuman
world is bound up with the experience of space: thinking about and
with nonhuman spaces destabilizes human-scale assumptions. Literary
form affords this kind of nonanthropocentric experience; one role
of the critic in the Anthropocene is to foreground the function of
space and description in challenging the conventional link between
narrative and human (inter)subjectivity. Bringing together New
Formalism, ecocriticism, and narrative theory, the included essays
demonstrate that literature can transgress the strong and
long-established boundary of the human frame that literary and
narrative scholarship clings to. The focus is firmly on the
contemporary but with strategic samplings in earlier cultural texts
(the American transcendentalists, modernist fiction) that
anticipate present-day anxieties about the nonhuman, while at the
same time offering important conceptual tools for working through
them.
An interdisciplinary encounter between new materialist and
object-oriented studies and literary criticism. Through a
rethinking of the relationship between the subject and object, the
human and the nonhuman, this volume shows how literature and
post-anthropocentric theory can illuminate each other in mutually
productive ways. Focusing on how the study of literature is an
underdeveloped field within 'the material turn', the introduction
and each of the eleven chapters examine ways in which new
materialist and object-oriented theory opens the study of
literature in new ways just as they demonstrate the deep
entanglements in literature of human and nonhuman realities. The
collection includes an Afterword by Timothy Morton and hands-on
analyses and close readings of individual works by such diverse
writers as Hans Christian Andersen, Djuna Barnes, Sylvia Plath,
Georges Perec, Ayi Kwei Armah, Jeanette Winterson and Paolo
Bacigalupi.
Through a rethinking of the relationship between the subject and
object, the human and the nonhuman, this volume shows how
literature and post-anthropocentric theory can illuminate each
other in mutually productive ways. Focusing on how the study of
literature is an underdeveloped field within 'the material turn',
the introduction and each of the eleven chapters examine ways in
which new materialist and object-oriented theory opens the study of
literature in new ways just as they demonstrate the deep
entanglements in literature of human and nonhuman realities. The
collection includes an Afterword by Timothy Morton and hands-on
analyses and close readings of individual works by such diverse
writers as Hans Christian Andersen, Djuna Barnes, Sylvia Plath,
Georges Perec, Ayi Kwei Armah, Jeanette Winterson and Paolo
Bacigalupi.
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