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New Ecological Realisms : Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory
by Monika Kaup
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Overview
Monika Kaup pairs post-apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, Jos 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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- ISBN-13: 9781474483094
- ISBN-10: 1474483097
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publish Date: May 2021
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.81 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.47 pounds
- Page Count: 352
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