Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman

Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises

Matthias Stephan, Sune Borkfelt (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

284 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0376-8 (ISBN)

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This collection asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward.

Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward. Bringing insights from the field of literary animal studies, a diverse and international group of scholars examine literary contributions to the ecological framing of human-nonhuman relationships. Collectively, the contributors to this edited collection contemplate the role of literature in the setting of environmental agendas and in determining humanity’s path forward in the company of nonhuman others.

Matthias Stephan is associate professor at Aarhus University, coordinator at the Centre for Studies in Otherness, author of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century, and editor of Otherness: Essays and Studies. Sune Borkfelt is lecturer at Aarhus University and author of Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity.

Part I: Past Narratives of Environmental Crisis
Chapter 1: The Peculiar Associations of Melville’s “Encantadas”: Nature and National Allegory
Kristen R. Egan
Chapter 2: Making a Difference? Richard Jefferies’ After London, E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops,” and Climate Change Fiction
Adrian Tait
Chapter 3: Stories of “Being-with” Other Animals: A Case of Humans and Horses
Mary Trachsel
Part II: Witnessing
Chapter 4: Animal Texts: How Coyote America and American Wolf Embody the Literary Animal Through A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
Lauren E. Perry
Chapter 5: Beautiful and Sublime: Embracing Otherness in Mary Oliver’s Ecopoetry
Anastasia Cardone
Chapter 6: The Sea’s Witness: Narration, Texturisation and Reader Responsibility in Rachel Carson’s Oceanalia
Lauren O’Mahony
Part 3: Nonhuman Agency/Representation of the Nonhuman
Chapter 7: The Posthuman Return: Transformation through Stillness in Richard Powers’s The Overstory
Owen Harry
Chapter 8: Classifying Monsters
Vera Veldhuizen
Chapter 9:

Erscheinungsdatum	06.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Co-Autor	Clare Archer-Lean, Sune Borkfelt, Anastasia Cardone
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 227 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-6669-0376-0 / 1666903760
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-0376-8 / 9781666903768
Zustand	Neuware