Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell

Broschiertes Buch

Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature

Unsettling the Anthropocene

Beschreibung

This book presents a detailed and innovative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. It will be of interest to scholars and students of ecocriticism, environmental humanities, and postcolonial and Indigenous studies.

Autor

Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of New English Literatures and Cultures, Goethe University Frankfurt. Her areas of focus are transcultural Anglophone Literature, Ecocriticism and Intergenerational Justice. She earned her PhD within the joint programme between Goethe and Monash University in Melbourne.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 334g
• ISBN-13: 9781032319643
• ISBN-10: 103231964X
• Artikelnr.: 74064805

Rezensionen

"Bartha-Mitchell's book is an impressive achievement. The theoretical field, which she traces with such consistent care and detail, is formidable and one where its voices often speak at unacknowledged cross-purposes [...] The book's value lies not just in its productive readings of contemporary Australian prose fiction, but as a concise map of environmental critique."

Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Chair of Australian Literature, University of Western Australia, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Australia

"An innovative intervention in the environmental humanities, this thought-provoking study of contemporary Australian literature makes a powerful case for the generative

concept of cosmos and, more broadly, for the importance of literary studies within the wider field."

Diletta De Cristofaro, Assistant Professor, Northumbria University, UK

"Where most ecocritical scholarship concentrates on stories set in a vulnerable future, Bartha-Mitchell's book disrupts this temporal straight-jacketing by examining texts that - roughly arranged - examine ecological pasts, futures and presents. Cosmological Readings thus introduces readers to new ecocritical stories, to a wider range of primary texts, and challenges limited thinking about where new imaginings on the environment, ecology and climate change might be found."

Geoff Rodoreda, Lecturer, University of Stuttgart, Germany