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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Nottingham Trent University.
What do we mean when we talk of 'world' literature? What does a global, even a planetary view reveal to us about literature, culture and being?
In Orbital Poetics Philip Leonard explores conceptions of the world through the history of writing, theory and culture from an orbital perspective. Starting with literary and theoretical writing on satellites, orbit and terrestrial ground from the ancient world to the 21st century, the book casts a revealing new light on what it means to consider literature and culture on a global scale. Along the way, Leonard draws on a wide range of thinkers, writers and texts: from Dante and Goethe to contemporary electronic literature; Haruki Murakami and Tom McCarthy by way of philosophers and theorists including Agamben, Derrida and Heidegger; as well as astronaut photography and popular culture texts, such as novels by Buzz Aldrin and Tess Gerritsen and Alfonso Cuarón's film Gravity.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: November 20th, 1998: dawn
Part I: World literature in orbit
Chapter 2: Dante in space
Chapter 3: What counts as literature?
Part II: A literature of the ultramundane
Chapter 4: The space of electronic literature
Chapter 5: Global catastrophe
Part III: Being-in-orbit
Chapter 6: Kosmotheoros in tears
Chapter 7: 'A machine, fallen from the sky'
Bibliography
Index
