Reading and Writing in the Anthropocene - An Eco-Deconstructive Approach

Situated in the context of environmental thought in literary studies in particular and the humanities more generally, this book claims that literature is a crucial "force" for coming to terms with the challenges of climate change and the Anthropocene. Performing a kind of creative criticism, this book is a work of eco-deconstruction which engages with a variety of films and literary texts ranging, roughly, from the early 1980s - when the knowledge of an environmental crisis started to trickle down to the general public and when scholars and governments alike turned their attention to it - to the early 21st century. Examining texts as diverse as Mad Max , Cosmopolis , Blade Runner and The Diamond Age , the book sets out to theorise an Anthropocene literary turn, repositioning literature and film as a "geological force" in the era of the Anthropocene>

List of contents

Introduction: Toward Extinction, To Ward Off Extinction
CHapter 1: Catastrophe
Chapter 2: Veering
Chapter 3: The Anthropocene Literary Re-Turn
Coda: From Milestone to Limestone, Teleological Progress to Sedimentary Earth Writing
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography

About the author

Sarah Jonckheere

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Jonckheere
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.05.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781350445260
• ISBN: 978-1-350-44526-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Environmental Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Literary studies: from c 2000