Anthropocene Affordances

Scale, Narrative Form, and the Human in US-American Literature

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Beschreibung:

The current historical moment, often referred to as the Anthropocene, is defined by profound human influence on the planetary system. Lena Pfeifer examines how contemporary US-American literature negotiates the political, ethical, and epistemological challenges posed by the Anthropocene. Connecting new formalist approaches with theories of scale, she develops the concept of 'Anthropocene affordances' as a new methodological framework for analyzing narrative responses to the recent ecological crisis that reconfigure conventional forms and narrative strategies to critically discuss the role of the human as a geological force.

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Über die Urheberinnen:

Lena Pfeifer received her doctorate in American Studies/Environmental Humanities at the University of Würzburg, where she has also been working as a research assistant since 2021. Her research focuses on environmental writing of the 20th and 21st centuries, discourses of the Anthropocene, climate fiction, new formalism, and nuclear cultures.

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Produktdetails:

• Autor:in: Lena Pfeifer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.11.2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• Seitenumfang: 282 Seiten
• ISBN: 9783837679335