New Ecological Realisms: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory

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ISBN: 9781474483100
Author : Monika Kaup
Published: 2021
Publisher: EUP
Number of pages: 352
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 234×156

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Monika Kaup pairs post-apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, José 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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