New Ecological Realisms: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory

by Monika Kaup

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474483097
• ISBN13: 9781474483094
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"