Narrating Nonhuman Spaces

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:...

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description 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-715932025-08-13T14:10:50Z Narrating Nonhuman Spaces Caracciolo, Marco Marcussen, Marlene Karlsson Rodriguez, David Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism 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. 2021-08-10T04:01:22Z 2021-08-10T04:01:22Z 2021-08-09T09:52:59Z 2022 book OCN: 1264173069 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50333 9781032021010 9781032021041 9781003181866 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/71593 eng Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50333/1/9781000441550.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50333/1/9781000441550.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50333/1/9781000441550.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50333/1/9781000441550.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003181866 10.4324/9781003181866 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781032021010 9781032021041 9781003181866 European Research Council (ERC) Routledge 250 open access
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Narrating Nonhuman Spaces
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