Narrating Nonhuman Spaces: Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Objects and the Resources of Description Chapter 1 Containment and Empathy in Katherine Mansfield’s and Virginia Woolf’s Short Stories Chapter 2 Floating Air—Solid Furniture: Vibrant Spaces in Virginia Woolf’s “Time Passes” Chapter 3 The Descriptive Turn in German Nature-Oriented Neue Sachlichkeit (1913–1933): An Essay on Nonhuman Literary Genres Part II Catastrophic Narrative Environments Chapter 4 Nonhuman Presence and Ontological Instability in Twenty-First-Century New York Fiction Chapter 5 Seasonal Feelings: Reading Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl During Winter Depression Chapter 6 Imagining Posthuman Environments in the Anthropocene: The Function of Space in Post-Apocalyptic Climate Change Fiction Chapter 7 “It Wants to Become Real and Can Only Become Prose”: Anthropocenic Focalization in 10:04 and The World Without Us Part III Scales and Limits of Narrative Chapter 8 Maarit Verronen’s Monomaniacs of the Anthropocene: Scaling the Nonhuman in Contemporary Finnish Fiction Chapter 9 Plotting the Nonhuman: The Geometry of Desire in Contemporary “Lab Lit” Chapter 10 Lithic Space-Time in Lyric: Narrating the Poetic Anthropocene Chapter 11 Narrating the “Great Outdoors” Chapter 12 Inside the Great Outdoors: A Complete and Unabridged Guide: With Travelogue, Bestiary, Judgement Index