Markku Lehtimäki

Gebundenes Buch

Nature and Narrative

Rhetoric and Design in Contemporary Fiction

Beschreibung

Through its analysis of several contemporary novels, the study proposes a reciprocal relationship between nature and narrative, arguing that nature both informs and inspires artistic creations, while literary designs and rhetoric also shape our ideas and perceptions of nature.

Autor

Markku Lehtimäki, PhD., is a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Turku, Finland. His fields of expertise are narrative theory, visual culture, ecocriticism, American literature, and the contemporary novel. His research projects include Natural Narratology, Cognitive Poetics, and Ecocriticism (2009-2011), The Changing Environment of the North: Cultural Representations and Uses of Water (2017-2021), The Novel's Knowledge: The Changing Roles of Author and Book in Society (2022-2024), and Authors of the Story Economy: Narrative and Digital Capital in the 21st Century Literary Field (2024-2028). He is the author or co-editor of several books, most recently Visual Representations of the Arctic: Imagining Shimmering Worlds in Culture, Literature and Politics (Routledge 2021) and Cold Waters: Tangible and Symbolic Seascapes of the North (2022). He has also published articles in journals such as Image [&] Narrative, Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Theory, and Style.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781032996950
• ISBN-10: 1032996951
• Artikelnr.: 72600315