Characterising the Anthropocene

Alessandro Macilenti

ISBN 10: 3631732791 / ISBN 13: 9783631732793

Verlag: Peter Lang Mrz 2018, 2018

Beschreibung

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book applies the analytical methods of third-wave ecocriticism to selected twenty-first century Italian literary works. Turning abstract issues into narrative form, literary writing increases awareness of environmental issues as well as exerting a deep emotive influence on its readership. The author analyses Roberto Saviano's «Gomorra», Kai Zen's «Delta blues», Wu Ming's «Previsioni del tempo», Simona Vinci's «Rovina», Giancarlo di Cataldo's «Fuoco!», Laura Pugno's «Sirene», and Alessandra Montrucchio's «E poi la sete». He demonstrates that these works offer an invaluable opportunity to communicate meaningfully and accessibly the discomforting truths of global environmental change. 218 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783631732793

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Characterising the Anthropocene
• Verlag: Peter Lang Mrz 2018
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3631732791
• ISBN-13: 9783631732793
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 216B x 153 H x 17 T Millimeter Breite: 216 mm, Höhe: 153 mm, Tiefe: 17 mm
• Gewicht: 400 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

This book applies the analytical methods of third-wave ecocriticism to selected twenty-first century Italian literary works. The author demonstrates that these works offer an invaluable opportunity to communicate meaningfully and accessibly the discomforting truths of global environmental change.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alessandro Macilenti obtained a doctoral degree at the Victoria University of Wellington. His research interests include the educational and communicative potential of literary writing depicting radical environmental degradation.