Unnatural narratology and weird realism in Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation / Jon Hegglund -- Object-oriented plotting and nonhuman realities in DeLillo's Underworld and Iñárritu's Babel / Marco Caracciolo -- Readerly dynamics in dynamic climatic times: Cli-Fi and rhetorical narrative theory / Eric Morel -- A comedy of survival: narrative progression and the rhetoric of climate change in Ian McEwan’s Solar / Markku Lehtimäki -- Ecocriticism as narrative ethics: triangulating environmental virtue in Richard Powers’s Gain / Greg Garrard -- Feeling nature: narrative environments and character empathy / Alexa Weik von Mossner -- Finding a practical narratology in the work of restoration ecology / Matthew M. Low -- Worldmaking environmental crisis: climate fiction, econarratology, and genre / Astrid Bracke -- Narrative in the Anthropocene / Erin James.
Summary:
"Collection of essays connecting ecocriticism and narrative theory to encourage constructive discourse on narrative's influence of real-world environmental perspectives and the challenges that necessitate revision to current narrative models"-- Provided by publisher.
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