Monika Kaup

New Ecological Realisms (eBook, PDF)

Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

Monika Kaup pairs post-apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, Jose Saramago, Octavia Butler and Cormac McCarthy with new realist theories from Bruno Latour, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Markus Gabriel, Jean-Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis. She shows that, just as new realist theory can illuminate post-apocalyptic literature, post-apocalyptic literature can illuminate new theories of the real. Kaup showcases a context-based concept of the real. She argues that new realisms of complex and embedded wholes, actor-networks and ecologies - not the old realisms of isolated parts and things - represent the most promising escape from the impasses of constructivism and positivism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474483117
• Artikelnr.: 72419651

Autorenporträt

Monika Kaup is Professor of English at the University of Washington. She is the author of Neobaroque in the Americas: Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film (University of Virginia Press 2012) and she is co-editor of Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest (Duke University Press 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. New Ecological Realisms and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
2. The New Realism of the Factish and the Political Ecology of Humans and Non-Humans: Bruno Latour and Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy
3. The Ontology of Knowledge as the Enaction of Mind and World: Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela's Autopoietic Theory and José Saramago's Blindness
4. Apocalypse as Field of Sense: Markus Gabriel's Ontology of Fields of Sense and Octavia Butler's Parable Series
5. New Phenomenologies after Poststructuralism (Jean-Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis) and Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Works Cited.