1st Edition

Literature and the Anthropocene

By Pieter Vermeulen Copyright 2020
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

The Anthropocene has fundamentally changed the way we think about our relation to nonhuman life and to the planet. This book is the first to critically survey how the Anthropocene is enriching the study of literature and inspiring contemporary poetry and fiction. Engaging with topics such as genre, life, extinction, memory, infrastructure, energy, and the future, the book makes a compelling case... Read more

Introduction: Naming, Telling, Writing – the Anthropocene  Part 1: Anthropocene Agencies  1. Forms, Lives, Forms of Life  2. Genres, Media, Worlds  3. Objects, Matters, Things  Part 2: Anthropocene Temporalities  4. Dominations  5. Emergencies  6. Residues  Glossary  Works Cited

Biography

Pieter Vermeulen is an associate professor of American and comparative literature at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of Romanticism after the Holocaust and Contemporary Literature and the End of the Novel: Creature, Affect, Form.