Nonhuman Agencies in the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel
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Nonhuman Agencies in the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel
Burger, Bettina; Liebermann, Yvonne; Rahn, Judith
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
09/2021
320
Dura
Inglês
9783030794415
15 a 20 dias
570
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1. Introduction: Narrating the Nonhuman.- Section I: Nonhuman Poetics: Agency of Literary Forms.- 2. Forms of Agency, Agency of Forms: Reading and Teaching More-than-Human Fictions.- 3. Nonhuman Agencies in and of Literature.- 4. Deontologising the Nonhuman: Arthur Gordon Pym, Contemporary Literature, and the Limits of the Human.-Section II: Negotiating the Human in the Light of the Nonhuman.- 5. Anthropogenesis: Ian McEwan's Fictions of the Human.- 6. Arctic Snowmobilities: Encounters with Sled Dogs in Gary Paulsen's Winterdance.- 7. Reframing the Nonhuman: Grievability and the Value of Life in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.- 8. Hopeless Necromantics: Decomposition and Transcorporeal Love in Jim Crace's Being Dead.- Section III: Imagining Biocentric Communities.- 9. The Gender Politics of Trees.- 10. "Mycorrhizal Multiplicities": Mapping Collective Agency in Powers's The Overstory.- 11. The Climate Crisisand Affective Nonhuman Encounters: Ali Smith's Autumn (2016) and Jon McGregor's Reservoir 13 (2017).- 12. Postcolonial Fictions of the Anthropocene: Tracing Nonhuman Agency in Shubhangi Swarup's Latitudes of Longing.- Section IV: Negotiating Reality: Approaching the Nonhuman's Inescapable Alterity.- 13. Cthulhu Calling: Weird Intimacy and Estrangement in the Anthropocene.- 14. "Just a Surface": Anamorphic Perspective and Nonhuman Narration in Jeff VanderMeer's The Strange Bird.- 15. "All Life Matters, or None does" - Connecting Human and Nonhuman Worlds in Ambelin Kwaymullina's The Tribe Series.
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posthumanism;new materialism;Anthropocentrism;biopolitics;artificial intelligence;climate fiction;animal studies
1. Introduction: Narrating the Nonhuman.- Section I: Nonhuman Poetics: Agency of Literary Forms.- 2. Forms of Agency, Agency of Forms: Reading and Teaching More-than-Human Fictions.- 3. Nonhuman Agencies in and of Literature.- 4. Deontologising the Nonhuman: Arthur Gordon Pym, Contemporary Literature, and the Limits of the Human.-Section II: Negotiating the Human in the Light of the Nonhuman.- 5. Anthropogenesis: Ian McEwan's Fictions of the Human.- 6. Arctic Snowmobilities: Encounters with Sled Dogs in Gary Paulsen's Winterdance.- 7. Reframing the Nonhuman: Grievability and the Value of Life in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.- 8. Hopeless Necromantics: Decomposition and Transcorporeal Love in Jim Crace's Being Dead.- Section III: Imagining Biocentric Communities.- 9. The Gender Politics of Trees.- 10. "Mycorrhizal Multiplicities": Mapping Collective Agency in Powers's The Overstory.- 11. The Climate Crisisand Affective Nonhuman Encounters: Ali Smith's Autumn (2016) and Jon McGregor's Reservoir 13 (2017).- 12. Postcolonial Fictions of the Anthropocene: Tracing Nonhuman Agency in Shubhangi Swarup's Latitudes of Longing.- Section IV: Negotiating Reality: Approaching the Nonhuman's Inescapable Alterity.- 13. Cthulhu Calling: Weird Intimacy and Estrangement in the Anthropocene.- 14. "Just a Surface": Anamorphic Perspective and Nonhuman Narration in Jeff VanderMeer's The Strange Bird.- 15. "All Life Matters, or None does" - Connecting Human and Nonhuman Worlds in Ambelin Kwaymullina's The Tribe Series.
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