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1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Speculative Realism
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Speculative realism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
New ecological realisms and post-apocalyptic fiction -- The new realism of the factish and the political ecology of humans and non-humans : Bruno Latour and Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy -- The ontology of knowledge as the enaction of mind and world : Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela's autopoietic theory and José Saramago's Blindness -- Apocalypse as field of sense : Markus Gabriel's ontology of fields of sense and Octavia Butler's Parable Series -- New phenomenologies after poststructuralism (Jean-Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis) and Cormac McCarthy's The Road. |
| Summary |
"What is the singular reality of humanistic objects of study? By pairing post-apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, José Saramago, Octavia Butler and Cormac McCarthy with new realist theories, Monika Kaup shows that, just as new realist theory can illuminate post-apocalyptic literature, post-apocalyptic literature also embeds new theories of the real."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Monika Kaup is Professor of English at the University of Washington. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Apocalypse in literature.
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Apocalypse in literature. |
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
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20th century |
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Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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21st century |
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Realism.
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Realism. |
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Realism in literature.
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Realism in literature. |
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1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Print version: Kaup, Monika. New ecological realisms. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021] 1474483097 (OCoLC)1201380251 |
| ISBN |
9781474483117 webready PDF |
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1474483119 webready PDF |
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9781474483124 epub |
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1474483127 epub |
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9781474483094 hardback |
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9781474483100 paperback |
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9781399502115 (electronic book) |
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1399502115 (electronic book) |
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1474483097 |
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1474483100 |
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