Hyperobject Reading Scale Variance And American Fiction In The Anthropocene
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Author |
: Chingshun J. Sheu |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3031256417 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783031256417 |
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: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hyperobject Reading, Scale Variance, and American Fiction in the Anthropocene by : Chingshun J. Sheu
This book proposes a model of reading called hyperobject reading that bridges the Anthropocene scale variance between humans and humanity by focusing on the large-scale problems and phenomena themselves. Hyperobject reading draws on narratology and reader-response theory, as well as newer developments such as the postcritical turn and object-oriented ontology. The theoretical introduction sets out the building blocks of hyperobject reading. Chapter 2 intervenes in critical disability studies and debates about the ecosomatic paradigm; Chapter 3 intervenes in debates about technological evolution, analogue vs. digital subjectivity, and affect theory; and Chapter 4 intervenes in debates about autofiction, contemporary metafiction, and the position and role of the narrator in first-person narratives where the narrator and protagonist can be distinguished. The analytical conclusion sketches the conceptual anatomy of the hyperobject and three possible responses. No part of the Earth today is free from human influence, but literary success suggests effective real-world strategies. Chingshun J. Sheu is Assistant Professor of Applied English at Ming Chuan University. His research focuses on contemporary American fiction, literary theory, narratology, and Alain Badiou. Having published essays on William Gaddis, Orson Scott Card, and Taiwanese author Chang Hsiu-ya, he is also the premier English-language film critic in Taiwan.
Author |
: Chingshun J. Sheu |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 191 |
Release |
: 2023-03-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783031256394 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3031256395 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hyperobject Reading, Scale Variance, and American Fiction in the Anthropocene by : Chingshun J. Sheu
This book proposes a model of reading called hyperobject reading that bridges the Anthropocene scale variance between humans and humanity by focusing on the large-scale problems and phenomena themselves. Hyperobject reading draws on narratology and reader-response theory, as well as newer developments such as the postcritical turn and object-oriented ontology. The theoretical introduction sets out the building blocks of hyperobject reading. Chapter 2 intervenes in critical disability studies and debates about the ecosomatic paradigm; Chapter 3 intervenes in debates about technological evolution, analogue vs. digital subjectivity, and affect theory; and Chapter 4 intervenes in debates about autofiction, contemporary metafiction, and the position and role of the narrator in first-person narratives where the narrator and protagonist can be distinguished. The analytical conclusion sketches the conceptual anatomy of the hyperobject and three possible responses. No part of the Earth today is free from human influence, but literary success suggests effective real-world strategies.
Author |
: 許景順 |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1269613837 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Literature in the Anthropocene by : 許景順
Author |
: Matt Graham |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2024-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781040091135 |
ISBN-13 |
: 104009113X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Postmodernism, Twenty-First Century Culture, and American Fiction by : Matt Graham
Postmodernism’s ‘end’ is a complex and contentious topic. Yet, one overarching consensus emerges: the postmodern has been surpassed. This book poses a thought experiment challenging this position – what if postmodernism persists within the twenty-first century? Rather than designate a new epoch or coherent movement, this book interrogates the fragmented, contradictory, and counterintuitive endurance of postmodern aesthetics within post-Cold War America. An alternative use of postmodern aesthetics becomes possible when they are decoupled from their twentieth-century historical location. Collectively, these repetitions posit a postmodern continuum, contrasting the widely called-for succession of postmodernism via this decoupling. When postmodern aesthetics are no longer unconsciously repeated within their cultural moment, this emergent shift within a period ‘after’ postmodernism presents an alternative historical positioning and use. After their cultural vanguard, postmodern aesthetics become a confrontation of the chaotic realism of an inescapable post-Cold War capitalism, tapping into this cultural zeitgeist through literature.
Author |
: Iping Liang |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2024-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781666935370 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1666935379 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan by : Iping Liang
Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan presents a historical overview of vegetal ecocriticism in Taiwan. Divided into 12 chapters, it examines the human-plant entanglements on the island. Covering a wide spectrum of topics, such as the imperial plant explorations, the military casuarina afforestation, the mangrove conservation movement, the ecofeminist rooftop garden, the Indigenous millet restoration, the underground mycorrhizal network in urban Taipei, etc., it discloses the phyto-politics in the historical context of the vegetal materialist condition of the island. Intersecting the poetics and politics of plant narratives, it presents the multispecies plantscapes of the island. The first of its kind, the collection launches the historical and localized critical plant studies in Taiwan.
Author |
: Lucy Bond |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 178 |
Release |
: 2020-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0367519771 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780367519773 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Planetary Memory in Contemporary American Fiction by : Lucy Bond
This book considers the ways in which contemporary American fiction seeks to imagine a mode of 'planetary memory' able to address the scalar and systemic complexities of the Anthropocene. First published as a special issue of Textual Practice.
Author |
: Michael Tavel Clarke |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 327 |
Release |
: 2017-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319642420 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319642421 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Scale in Literature and Culture by : Michael Tavel Clarke
This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing. Its contributors consider a variety of issues provoked by the sudden and pressing shifts in scale brought on by globalization and the era of the Anthropocene, including: the difficulties of defining the concept of scale; the challenges that shifts in scale pose to knowledge formation; the role of scale in mediating individual subjectivity and agency; the barriers to understanding objects existing in scalar realms different from our own; the role of scale in mediating the relationship between humans and the environment; and the nature of power, authority, and democracy at different social scales.
Author |
: Erin James |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2022-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814215076 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814215074 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narrative in the Anthropocene by : Erin James
Argues that a richer understanding of the forms and functions of narrative in the Anthropocene provides us with invaluable insight into how stories shape our world.
Author |
: Paul Crosthwaite |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2019-07-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108499569 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108499562 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction by : Paul Crosthwaite
Contemporary British and American fiction is defined by financial markets' power over the global publishing industry and the global economy.
Author |
: Sidney I. Dobrin |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2011-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136482427 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136482423 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media by : Sidney I. Dobrin
Moving beyond ecocomposition, this book galvanizes conversations in ecology and writing not with an eye toward homogenization, but with an agenda of firmly establishing the significance of writing research that intersects with ecology. It looks to establish ecological writing studies not just as a legitimate or important form of writing research, but as paramount to the future of writing studies and writing theory. Complex ecologies, writing studies, and new-media/post-media converge to highlight network theories, systems theories, and posthumanist theories as central in the shaping of writing theory, and this study embraces work in these areas as essential to the development of ecological theories of writing. Contributors address ecological theories of writing by way of diverse and promising avenues, united by the underlying commitment to better understand how ecological methodologies might help better inform our understanding of writing and might provoke new theories of writing. Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media fuels future theoretical conversations about ecology and writing and will be of interest to those who are interested in theories of writing and the function of writing.