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9783030281182: Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities
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ISBN 10 : 3030281183 ISBN 13 : 9783030281182
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

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 Miéville, N. K. Jemisin, Thomas Ligotti, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others.


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À propos de l'auteur

Julius Greve is Lecturer and Research Associate at the Institute for English and American Studies, University of Oldenburg, Germany, and the author of Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature (2018).

Florian Zappe is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. He has published monographs on William S. Burroughs and Kathy Acker and a variety of essays on (post)modern literature, cinema, and theory.


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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3030281183
ISBN 13 
9783030281182
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
220
Éditeur
Greve Julius, Zappe Florian
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