Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene - Couverture souple

Livre 23 sur 23: Under the Sign of Nature

Caracciolo, Marco

 
9780813945835: Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene
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ISBN 10 : 0813945836 ISBN 13 : 9780813945835
Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2021

Synopsis

A hierarchical model of human societies' relations with the natural world is at the root of today's climate crisis; Narrating the Mesh contends that narrative form is instrumental in countering this ideology. Drawing inspiration from Timothy Morton's concept of the "mesh" as a metaphor for the human-nonhuman relationship in the face of climate change, Marco Caracciolo investigates how narratives in genres such as the novel and the short story employ formal devices to effectively channel the entanglement of human communities and nonhuman phenomena.

How can narrative undermine linearity in order to reject notions of unlimited technological progress and economic growth? What does it mean to say that nonhuman materials and processes--from contaminated landscapes to natural evolution--can become characters in stories? And, conversely, how can narrative trace the rising awareness of climate change in the thick of human characters' mental activities? These are some of the questions Narrating the Mesh addresses by engaging with contemporary works by Ted Chiang, Emily St. John Mandel, Richard Powers, Jeff VanderMeer, Jeanette Winterson, and many others. Entering interdisciplinary debates on narrative and the Anthropocene, this book explores how stories can bridge the gap between scientific models of the climate and the human-scale world of everyday experience, powerfully illustrating the complexity of the ecological crisis at multiple levels.

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À propos de l?auteur

Marco Caracciolo is Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University (Belgium) and author of four books, most recently Embodiment and the Cosmic Perspective in Twentieth-Century Fiction.

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Éditeur
University of Virginia Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813945836
ISBN 13 
9780813945835
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780813945828: Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene

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ISBN 10 :  0813945828 ISBN 13 :  9780813945828
Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2021
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