Disturbing Nature in Narrative Literature (Perspectives on the Non-human in Literature and Culture)

Armstrong, Philip

Routledge（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 244 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032733159
• DDC分類 809.9336

Full Description

Disturbing Nature in Narrative Literature identifies and analyses encounters with unexpected, disconcerting, and unsettling aspects of the natural world, as these have been represented across a wide range of literary texts. It includes in‑depth discussion of both familiar and less familiar works from the British, American, and European literary traditions, and from the Classical period to today. The motifs discussed include earthquakes, forests, storms, animals, and oceanic depth, and the writers include Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, Voltaire, Heinrich von Kleist, Herman Melville, H.G. Wells, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gabriel García Márquez, José Saramago, Margaret Atwood, and Annie Proulx. Rich in both close textual analysis and contextual discussion, Disturbing Nature in Narrative Literature offers a vivid introduction to several topical approaches to literary‑critical analysis, including ecocriticism, new materialism, affect theory, and human‑animal studies, thereby demonstrating how literature shapes and is shaped by our response to the pressing questions of our time.

Contents

Introduction: Moving Nature

PART ONE: NATURE'S AGENCIES

1. The Literary Seismograph: Earthquakes in European Literature and Thought

2. Fear of the Forest: Cultural Xylophobia from Pliny to Proulx

3. Shakespeare's Vital Parts: Animal, Vegetable, and Meteorological Actors on the Shakespearean Stage

PART TWO: ANIMAL AFFECTS

4. Baleful Light: Literary Encounters with the Gaze of Animals

5. Taxonomy and Wonder: Old World Bestiaries and New World Marvels

6. The Lower Deep: Fathoming the Abyss in Moby-Dick

Epilogue

Index