Narrating the Mesh : Form and Story in the Anthropocene /
"This book argues that humans have a natural, biologically driven preference for organic form in syntax and text"--
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2021.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Narrative and Interlocking Forms
- 1. Complex Narrative in the Anthropocene
- Part I. Nonlinearity
- 2. The Form of the Butterfly
- 3. Negative Strategies and Nonlinear Temporality in Postapocalyptic Fiction
- Part II. Interdependency
- 4. Five Ways of Looking at Nonhuman Actants
- 5. Minding the Anthropocene
- Part III. Multiscalarity
- 6. Metaphorical Patterns in Anthropocene Fiction
- 7. Metaphor, Scale, and the Value of Conceptual Trouble
- Coda: Thinking beyond Literary Form
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Recent books in the series