ISBN:
9781474481960
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9781474481984
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Adkins, Peter The modernist anthropocene
DDC:
823/.91209112
Keywords:
Woolf, Virginia
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Joyce, James
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Barnes, Djuna
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Barnes, Djuna
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Joyce, James - 1882-1941
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Woolf, Virginia - 1882-1941
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Modernism (Literature) History
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Climatic changes in literature
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Nature in literature
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Literature: history & criticism
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Climat - Changements, dans la littérature
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Nature dans la littérature
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
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Climatic changes in literature
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Modernism (Literature)
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Nature in literature
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History
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Literary criticism
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Critiques littéraires
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Englisch
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Literatur
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Moderne
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Anthropozän
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Joyce, James 1882-1941
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Anthropozän
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Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941
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Anthropozän
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Barnes, Djuna 1892-1982
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Anthropozän
Abstract:
The Modernist Anthropocene examines how modernist writers forged new and innovative ways of responding to rapidly changing planetary conditions and emergent ideas about nonhuman life, environmental change and the human species. Drawing on ecocritical analysis, posthumanist theory, archival research and environmental history, this book resituates key works of modernist fiction within the ecological moment of the early twentieth century, a period in which new configurations of the relationship between human life and the natural world were migrating between the sciences, philosophy and literary culture. The author makes the case that the early twentieth century is pivotal in our understanding of the Anthropocene both as a planetary epoch and a critical concept. In doing so, he positions James Joyce, Djuna Barnes and Virginia Woolf as theorists of the modernist Anthropocene, showing how their oeuvres are shaped by, and actively respond to, changing ideas about the nonhuman that continue to reverberate today
Note:
English
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