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Uncertain ontologies in twenty-first-century storyworlds Universiteit Gent
Being moved by nature in the Anthropocene : on the limits of the ecological sublime Universiteit Gent
With bodies : narrative theory and embodied cognition Universiteit Gent
Narrating the mesh : form and story in the anthropocene Universiteit Gent
A hierarchical model of human societies’ relations with the natural world is at the root of today’s climate crisis; Narrating the Mesh contends that narrative form is instrumental in countering this ideology. Drawing inspiration from Timothy Morton’s concept of the "mesh" as a metaphor for the human-nonhuman relationship in the face of climate change, Marco Caracciolo investigates how narratives in genres such as the novel and the short story ...
Plotting the nonhuman : the geometry of desire in contemporary 'lab lit' Universiteit Gent
Consider the expression “love triangle:” the triangle is a spatial metaphor that captures the relationship between three individuals. The novels examined in this chapter—Jonathan Lethem's As She Climbed Across the Table and Jeanette Winterson's Gut Symmetries (both published in 1997)—foreground geometrical forms by comparing the characters' relationship to a chain and a triangle respectively. Both novels belong to the genre of “lab lit,” realist ...
Animal mayhem games and nonhuman-oriented thinking Universiteit Gent
A host of recent videogames revolve around animals that wreak havoc on human communities and the urban spaces they live in. After introducing this strand of “animal mayhem games,” my paper links it to recent arguments on human-nonhuman entanglement in times of ecological crisis. Games like Goat Simulator, Deeeer Simulator and Tokyo Jungle ask players to engage with an animal avatar while simultaneously unsettling dichotomies between human ...
Introduction Universiteit Gent
Drawing inspiration from the unconventional typography of Mark Danielewski’s novel House of Leaves, this introduction lays out the main conceptual coordinates for the collection: spatiality, literary form, and the way in which the climate crisis prompts a reconfiguration of human–nonhuman relations. We argue, in dialogue with narrative theory, New Formalism, and debates on the Anthropocene, that the literary experience of space can serve as a ...