Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman - Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises

This collection asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward.

About the author

Matthias Stephan is associate professor at Aarhus University, coordinator at the Centre for Studies in Otherness, author of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century, and editor of Otherness: Essays and Studies.
Sune Borkfelt is lecturer at Aarhus University and author of Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity.

Summary

This collection asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward.

Product details

• Authors: Matthias Borkfelt Stephan
• Assisted by: Sune Borkfelt (Editor), Matthias Stephan (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2024
• EAN: 9781666903782
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-378-2
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Society & culture: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, natural history, Nature & the natural world: general interest, Literature: history & criticism