End of the Anthropocene - Ecocriticism, the Universal Ecosystem, and the Astropocene

In The End of the Anthropocene: Ecocriticism, the Universal Ecosystem, and the Astropocene, Michael J. Gormley examines literary imaginings of the Anthropocene's end and the Astropocene's beginning-when humans are no longer bound to the blue planet on which we evolved. Gormley analyzes literary images of human tracks on Earth, the Moon, and Mars to characterize the late-stage Anthropocene and to explore humanity's role in the universal ecosystem. The End of the Anthropocene uses a predictive and paradigmatic model of ecocriticism, examining science fiction works as interplanetary nature narratives.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Ecocriticism and the Universal Ecosystem
Chapter 2: Biotic World
Chapter 3: A Body in the Universal Ecosystem
Chapter 4: The Astropocene
Chapter 5: Spatiotemporal Nature

About the author

Michael J. Gormley is professor at Quinsigamond Community College.

Product details

• Authors: Michael J. Gormley
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2021
• EAN: 9781498594059
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9405-9
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Physical geography & topography, Physical geography and topography