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- The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene
- The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Prologue Earth, Anthropocene, Literary Form
- Part I Anthropocene Forms
- Chapter 3 Poetry
- Chapter 4 The Novel
- Chapter 5 Popular Fiction
- Chapter 6 The Essay
- Chapter 7 Theatre and Performance
- Chapter 8 Interspecies Design
- Chapter 9 Digital Games
- Part II Anthropocene Themes
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
Chapter 4 - The Novel
from Part I - Anthropocene Forms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene
- The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Prologue Earth, Anthropocene, Literary Form
- Part I Anthropocene Forms
- Chapter 3 Poetry
- Chapter 4 The Novel
- Chapter 5 Popular Fiction
- Chapter 6 The Essay
- Chapter 7 Theatre and Performance
- Chapter 8 Interspecies Design
- Chapter 9 Digital Games
- Part II Anthropocene Themes
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
Summary
This chapter engages with questions around the possibilities and limitations of the novel and narrative in the Anthropocene. It addresses these challenges by drawing on and extending work in econarratology, and applying it to three novels in which floods depict the impact of climate change. In navigating the spatial, temporal and representational challenges of imagining climate crisis, these novels achieve a switching back and forth between the reader's actual world and the textual world. It is this back and forth, and the realisation that results from it, that is central to the role that the novel as a genre might play in depicting the Anthropocene.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene , pp. 88 - 101Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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