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New ecological realisms : post-apocalyptic fiction and contemporary theory /

"What is the singular reality of humanistic objects of study? By pairing post-apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, José Saramago, Octavia Butler and Cormac McCarthy with new realist theories, Monika Kaup shows that, just as new realist theory can illuminate post-apocalyptic literature, post-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaup, Monika (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
Colección:Speculative realism.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • New ecological realisms and post-apocalyptic fiction
  • The new realism of the factish and the political ecology of humans and non-humans : Bruno Latour and Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy
  • The ontology of knowledge as the enaction of mind and world : Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela's autopoietic theory and José Saramago's Blindness
  • Apocalypse as field of sense : Markus Gabriel's ontology of fields of sense and Octavia Butler's Parable Series
  • New phenomenologies after poststructuralism (Jean-Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis) and Cormac McCarthy's The Road.