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We live in a critical moment in history, often called the »Anthropocene«, that is defined by unprecedented scales of uncertainty. Natalie Dederichs draws on insights from the new materialisms about the entangled nature of planetary existence and combines them with approaches to aesthetics from fields as diverse as reader-response criticism, phenomenology, Gothic and media studies. She introduces a poetics of atmospheric re(lation)ality as a necessary component of any ecological engagement with fiction that fully embraces literary encounters with the inaccessible and elusive as expressed in uncanny atmospheric reading experiences.
Price: $54.99
Pages: 288
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
15 August 2023
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837665871
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
»Keenly aware of the difficulty of making statements ›about the actual ethical impact‹ of her chosen texts, her propositions for their ›affective affordances‹ are well argued and quite refreshing in that she makes a coherent case for the intrinsic value of literature and the study of it in times of anthropogenic climate change.«
Natalie Dederichs received her doctorate in Anglophone literatures and cultures at the University of Bonn, where she also worked as a research assistant for the DFG Research Training Group 2291: Gegenwart/Literatur. She completed her teacher training at the ZfsL Düsseldorf in 2022. Her research interests include ecocriticism and environmental philosophy, literary theory, English language teaching and education for sustainability.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
1. Introduction 9
2. There is Something in the Air 31
3. Being Polluted in the Global Garb-Age 109
4. Reading Matters, Material Readings 157
5. Going Glocal 201
6. Conclusion 239
7. Bibliography 255