Animals squawking their mysteries : narrative, poetic form, and the nonhuman in Laura Jean McKay's The Animals in That Country Ghent University
Scholarship on literature's engagement with the climate crisis has frequently highlighted the limitations of the realist novel vis-a-vis the scale and wide-ranging ramifications of climate change. This article reads Laura Jean McKay's The Animals in That Country (2020) as a powerful example of how the cross-fertilization of narrative and poetic forms can expand the imaginative reach of the novel. Through the plot device of a pandemic that ...