Description
The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch marking humanity's alteration of the Earth: its rock structure, environments, atmosphere. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene offers the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can address the social, cultural, and philosophical questions posed by the Anthropocene. This volume addresses the old and new literary forms - from novels, plays, poetry, and essays to exciting and evolving genres such as 'cli-fi', experimental poetry, interspecies design, gaming, weird, ecotopian and petro-fiction, and 'new' nature writing. Studies range from the United States to India, from Palestine to Scotland, while addressing numerous global signifiers or consequences of the Anthropocene: catastrophe, extinction, 'fossil capital', warming, politics, ethics, interspecies relations, deep time, and Earth. This unique Companion offers a compelling account of how to read literature through the Anthropocene and of how literature might yet help us imagine a better world.
From catastrophe to utopia, the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can speak to the 'Anthropocene'.
About the Author
John Parham is Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Worcester (UK). He has authored or co-edited five books including Green Media and Popular Culture (2016) and (with Louise Westling) A Global History of Literature and the Environment (2017). He has edited the journal Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism for 19 years.
Reviews
'Recommended.' J. Bilbro, Choice Magazine
'Altogether, the highly worthwhile essays collected in this volume avoid falling into the trap of many recent publications that use the Anthropocene as backdrop ... The Companion thus successfully conveys what sets Anthropocene scholarship apart from 'just' an environmental lens: an engagement with materiality of the Earth, media-technologies, historicity and futurity, scale and narrative, activism, and a wider pool of disciplines used to bring these knowledges together. Most importantly, the volume avoids perpetuating a universalist decline-narrative so often criticised in the Anthropocene debate.' Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
Book Information
ISBN 9781108498531
Author John Parham
Format Hardback
Page Count 340
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 600g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm * 22mm
From catastrophe to utopia, the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can speak to the 'Anthropocene'.
About the Author
John Parham is Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Worcester (UK). He has authored or co-edited five books including Green Media and Popular Culture (2016) and (with Louise Westling) A Global History of Literature and the Environment (2017). He has edited the journal Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism for 19 years.
Reviews
'Recommended.' J. Bilbro, Choice Magazine
'Altogether, the highly worthwhile essays collected in this volume avoid falling into the trap of many recent publications that use the Anthropocene as backdrop ... The Companion thus successfully conveys what sets Anthropocene scholarship apart from 'just' an environmental lens: an engagement with materiality of the Earth, media-technologies, historicity and futurity, scale and narrative, activism, and a wider pool of disciplines used to bring these knowledges together. Most importantly, the volume avoids perpetuating a universalist decline-narrative so often criticised in the Anthropocene debate.' Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
Book Information
ISBN 9781108498531
Author John Parham
Format Hardback
Page Count 340
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 600g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm * 22mm
