Anthropocene Affordances E-Book

Lena Pfeifer

• Herausgeber: transcript Verlag
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Literary Ecologies
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

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.