Anthropocene Affordances : Scale, Narrative Form, and the Human in US-American Literature

Lena Pfeifer

ISBN 10: 3837679330 / ISBN 13: 9783837679335

Verlag: Transcript Verlag Nov 2025, 2025

Neuware - The current historical moment, often referred to as the Anthropocene, is defined by profound human influence on the planetary system. Lena Pfeifer examines how contemporary US-American literature negotiates the political, ethical, and epistemological challenges posed by the Anthropocene. Connecting new formalist approaches with theories of scale, she develops the concept of »Anthropocene affordances« as a new methodological framework for analyzing narrative responses to the recent ecological crisis that reconfigure conventional forms and narrative strategies to critically discuss the role of the human as a geological force. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783837679335

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The current historical moment, often referred to as the Anthropocene, is defined by profound human influence on the planetary system. Lena Pfeifer examines how contemporary US-American literature negotiates the political, ethical, and epistemological challenges posed by the Anthropocene. Connecting new formalist approaches with theories of scale, she develops the concept of »Anthropocene affordances« as a new methodological framework for analyzing narrative responses to the recent ecological crisis that reconfigure conventional forms and narrative strategies to critically discuss the role of the human as a geological force. ---

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Lena Pfeifer received her doctorate in American Studies/Environmental Humanities at the University of Würzburg, where she has also been working as a research assistant since 2021. Her research focuses on environmental writing of the 20th and 21st centuries, discourses of the Anthropocene, climate fiction, new formalism, and nuclear cultures.

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Titel: Anthropocene Affordances : Scale, Narrative ...
Verlag: Transcript Verlag Nov 2025
Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
Einband: Taschenbuch
Zustand: Neu