Timothy Clark

Ecocriticism on the Edge (eBook, PDF)

The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept

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Produktbeschreibung

The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged.

Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical practice, one fully engaged with the destructive force of the planetary environmental crisis. Timothy Clark argues that, in literary and cultural criticism, the "Anthropocene", which names the epoch in which human impacts on the planet's ecological systems reach a dangerous limit, also represents a threshold at which modes of interpretation that once seemed sufficient or progressive become, in this new counterintuitive context, inadequate or even latently destructive. The book includes analyses of literary works, including texts by Paule Marshall, Gary Snyder, Ben Okri, Henry Lawson, Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472506702
• Artikelnr.: 42923363

Autorenporträt

Timothy Clark is Professor of English at the University of Durham, UK. His previous publications include The Poetics of Singularity (EUP, 2005) and The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment (Cambridge, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Preface Chapter One: The Anthropocene -- Questions of
Definition Chapter Two: Imaging and Imagining the Whole Earth: The
Terrestrial as Norm Chapter Three: Emergent Unreadability: Rereading a
Lyric by Gary Snyder Chapter Four: Scale Framing Chapter Five: Scale
Framing: A Reading Chapter Six: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Dehumanizing
Reading: An Australian Test-Case Chapter Seven: Anthropocene Disorder
Chapter Eight: Denial: A Reading Chapter Nine: The Tragedy that Climate
Change is not 'Interesting' Conclusion