Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic
Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities
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Beschreibung
This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as crucial for any understanding of current forms of “weird” and “fantastic” literature and culture. Given their focus on the culturally marginal, unknown, and “other,” these genres figure as diagnostic modes of storytelling, outlining the latent anxieties and social dynamics that define a culture’s “structure of feeling” at a given historical moment. The contributions in this volume map the long and continuous tradition of weird and fantastic fiction as a seismograph for eco-geographical turmoil from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, offering innovative and insightful ecocritical readings of H. P. Lovecraft, Harriet Prescott Spofford, China Miéville, N. K. Jemisin, Thomas Ligotti, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others.
This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as crucial for any understanding of current forms of “weird” and “fantastic” literature and culture. Given their focus on the culturally marginal, unknown, and “other,” these genres figure as diagnostic modes of storytelling, outlining the latent anxieties and social dynamics that define a culture’s “structure of feeling” at a given historical moment. The contributions in this volume map the long and continuous tradition of weird and fantastic fiction as a seismograph for eco-geographical turmoil from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, offering innovative and insightful ecocritical readings of H. P. Lovecraft, Harriet Prescott Spofford, China Miéville, N. K. Jemisin, Thomas Ligotti, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others.
Connects Continental theories like new materialism, posthumanism, and speculative realism with ecocriticism and geocriticism Defines the generic, environmental, and spatial bounds of the weird and fantastic in fiction and film Draws on H.P. Lovecraft’s writing to explore emerging areas of genre fiction such as “eco-horror”
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Julius Greve
Themen in »Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic«
genre fiction weird fiction fantasy science fiction spatial literary studies geocriticism posthumanism H.P Lovecraft eco-horror
Stimmen zu »Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic«
“A fascinating exploration of weird fiction in the context of climate change and current economic and political systems. These are thought-provoking pieces that constantly probe and poke at their subject matter in a restless and very useful way.” (Jeff VanderMeer, author of Borne (2017))
“From H.P. Lovecraft and Annihilation to The Broken Earth and Beasts of the Southern Wild, Greve and Zappe’s Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities offers an urgent ecocritical cartography for a planet that is never going back to normal.” (Gerry Canavan, Associate Professor of 20th and 21st Century Literature, Marquette University, USA)
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