Overview
- Connects Continental theories like new materialism, posthumanism, and speculative realism with ecocriticism and geocriticism
- Defines the generic, environmental, and spatial bounds of the weird and fantastic in fiction and film
- Draws on H.P. Lovecraft’s writing to explore emerging areas of genre fiction such as “eco-horror”
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as crucial for any understanding of current forms of “weird” and “fantastic” literature and culture. Given their focus on the culturally marginal, unknown, and “other,” these genres figure as diagnostic modes of storytelling, outlining the latent anxieties and social dynamics that define a culture’s “structure of feeling” at a given historical moment. The contributions in this volume map the long and continuous tradition of weird and fantastic fiction as a seismograph for eco-geographical turmoil from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, offering innovative and insightful ecocritical readings of H. P. Lovecraft, Harriet Prescott Spofford, China Miéville, N. K. Jemisin, Thomas Ligotti, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others.
Reviews
“From H.P. Lovecraft and Annihilation to The Broken Earth and Beasts of the Southern Wild, Greve and Zappe’s Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities offers an urgent ecocritical cartography for a planet that is never going back to normal.” (Gerry Canavan, Associate Professor of 20th and 21st Century Literature, Marquette University, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Julius Greve is Lecturer and Research Associate at the Institute for English and American Studies, University of Oldenburg, Germany, and the author of Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature (2018).
Florian Zappe is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. He has published monographs on William S. Burroughs and Kathy Acker and a variety of essays on (post)modern literature, cinema, and theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic
Book Subtitle: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities
Editors: Julius Greve, Florian Zappe
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28116-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28115-1Published: 27 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28118-2Published: 27 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28116-8Published: 18 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 208
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Fiction, Contemporary Literature, Environmental Communication