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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Jon Hegglund and John McIntyre - Contributions by Joseph Anderton; Emily Chester; Stuart Christie; Julia Daniel; Ted Howell; Jessica Martell; Robert Savino Oventile; Joshua Schuster; Michael Sloane; Charles Tung; Timothy Wientzen and Glenn Willm Klappentext Bringing together work from twelve leading scholars in the field of ecocriticism, Modernism and the Anthropocene explores the diverse ways that early twentieth-century literature initiated far-reaching conversations about the material and non-human world. Zusammenfassung Bringing together work from twelve leading scholars in the field of ecocriticism, Modernism and the Anthropocene explores the diverse ways that early twentieth-century literature initiated far-reaching conversations about the material and non-human world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Modernism and the Emergent Anthropocene Part I: Modernism-Anthropocene Encounters Chapter 1: Revolt against the Anthropos: The Human-Environment Conflicts in D.H. Lawrence Chapter 2: Vorticism in an Age of Climate Change Chapter 3: Hart Crane: A Poet of Our Climate Chapter 4: "What kind of creature uttered it...?": A Stratigraphy of Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable Part II: Planetary Time and Space Chapter 5: "The Modernist Cosmos: Olaf Stapledon, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and the Crisis of Species Chapter 6: Modernist Planets and Planetary Modernism Chapter 7: Early Ecology and Climate Change in the Future Histories of H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon Chapter 8: Second Modernism and the Aesthetics of Temporal Scale Part III: Writing Materials Chapter 9: Comics: Art of the Anthropocene Chapter 10: Modernism on Ice: Marianne Moore and the Glacial Imagination Chapter 11: Modernism's Plastic Futures Chapter 12: Sky and Smoke: Literary Atmospherics in Cary and Ibuse
List of contents
Introduction: Modernism and the Emergent Anthropocene
Part I: Modernism-Anthropocene Encounters
Chapter 1: Revolt against the Anthropos: The Human-Environment Conflicts in D.H. Lawrence
Chapter 2: Vorticism in an Age of Climate Change
Chapter 3: Hart Crane: A Poet of Our Climate
Chapter 4: "What kind of creature uttered it.?": A Stratigraphy of Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable
Part II: Planetary Time and Space
Chapter 5: "The Modernist Cosmos: Olaf Stapledon, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and the Crisis of Species
Chapter 6: Modernist Planets and Planetary Modernism
Chapter 7: Early Ecology and Climate Change in the Future Histories of H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon
Chapter 8: Second Modernism and the Aesthetics of Temporal Scale
Part III: Writing Materials
Chapter 9: Comics: Art of the Anthropocene
Chapter 10: Modernism on Ice: Marianne Moore and the Glacial Imagination
Chapter 11: Modernism's Plastic Futures
Chapter 12: Sky and Smoke: Literary Atmospherics in Cary and Ibuse
About the author
Jon Hegglund is associate professor of English at Washington State University.John McIntyre is associate professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island.
