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Hyperobject Reading, Scale Variance, and American Fiction in the Anthropocene
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Pages: 191
Authors: Chingshun J. Sheu
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-25 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This book proposes a model of reading called hyperobject reading that bridges the Anthropocene scale variance between humans and humanity by focusing on the lar
Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Iping Liang
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-05-15 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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This book presents a historical overview of vegetal ecocriticism in Taiwan and examines human-plant entanglements on the island.
Planetary Memory in Contemporary American Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Lucy Bond
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-23 - Publisher: Routledge

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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 co
Scale in Literature and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 323
Authors: Michael Tavel Clarke
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-04 - Publisher: Springer

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This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, t
Anthropocene Fictions
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Adam Trexler
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-20 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth’s atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting pol