New Ecological Realisms : Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory (Speculative Realism)

Kaup, Monika

Edinburgh University Press（2021/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 352 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474483100
• DDC分類 809.39372

Full Description

Monika Kaup pairs post-apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, José 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.

Contents

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. New Ecological Realisms and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction; 2. The New Realism of the Factish and the Political Ecology of Humans and Non-Humans: Bruno Latour and Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy; 3. The Ontology of Knowledge as the Enaction of Mind and World: Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela's Autopoietic Theory and José Saramago's Blindness; 4. Apocalypse as Field of Sense: Markus Gabriel's Ontology of Fields of Sense and Octavia Butler's Parable Series; 5. New Phenomenologies after Poststructuralism (Jean-Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis) and Cormac McCarthy's The Road; Works Cited.