Close reading the Anthropocene / edited by Helena Feder.
| Other author | Feder, Helena, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. |
| Copyright Date | ©2021 |
| Description | ix, 202 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: the unbearable closeness of reading / Helena Feder -- Inhabiting words, inhabiting worlds: a case for pragmatist close reading / Amelia Marini -- Ecopoetics and the myth of motivated form / Greg Garrard and Rina Garcia Chua -- Assembling the archive: close(ly) reading great auk extinction with Walton Ford / Nicole M. Merola -- Bartleby and the politics of measurement / Helena Feder -- Close reading at the end of time / Mark Long -- Postcolonial anthropocene and narrative archaeology in Burma Boy / Senayon Olaoluwa -- Key west in the anthropocene: Stevens and Bishop close reading Florida / Peter Balaam -- The tree as archive: George Nakashima and the nuclear age / Isabel Duarte-Gray -- Going underground: in defense of deep reading / Graham Huggan -- Reading in the dark: the aura of eclipse / Hilary Thompson - John Masefield's "The Passing Strange": derangements of scale / Tim Clark -- From scale to antagonism: reading the human in Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos / C. Parker Krieg. |
| Abstract | "Reading literature new and old, images and art, literary and critical theory, science and cultural studies, Close Reading the Anthropocene explores question of meaning, its importance and immanent potential for loss, in the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene. Both close reading and scientific ecology prioritize slowing down and looking around to apprehend similarities and differences, to recognize and value interconnections. Here "close" suggests careful attention to both the reading subject and read "object." Moving between places, rocks, plants, animals, atmosphere, and eclipses, this interdisciplinary edited collection grounds the complex relations between text and world in the environmental humanities. The volume's wide-ranging chapters are critical, often polemical, engagements with the question of the Anthropocene and the changing conversation around reading, interpretation, and textuality. They exemplify a range of work from across the globe and will be of great interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and literary studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Close reading the Anthropocene Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2021. 9781003030270 |
| LCCN | 2021000203 |
| ISBN | 9780367466602 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0367466600 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780367466596 paperback |
| ISBN | 0367466597 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN48 .C55 2021 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |