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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kaup, Monika (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
Series:Speculative realism.
Subjects:
1900-2099
Apocalypse in literature.
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Realism.
Realism in literature.
Fin du monde dans la littérature.
Roman > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Réalisme.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Apocalypse in literature
Fiction
Realism
Realism in literature
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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