Materiality, agency, and models of narrativity1 serenella iovino university of turin serpil oppermann hacettepe university, ankara the proliferation of studies bearing on the intellectual movement known as the onew materialisms o evinces that a material turn is becoming an important paradigm in environmental humanities. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark. Posthumanism in literature and ecocriticism iovino. However, on the whole, in the oxford handbook offers us a very wide scope, as you would expect from greg garrard, who is inclusive as much as he may argue for or against a. Building my theoretical discourse mostly on feminist animal studies, material ecocriticism, and posthumanism, i consider the work of the italian writer anna maria ortese 19141998 and her creaturely poetics of otherness, as exemplified in particular by her novel the iguana. Combined academic publishers material ecocriticism. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the. Material ecocriticism is the work of serenella iovino, author of ecologia letteraria.
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Material ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality. We will always be material beings living in a material world of one kind andor another. Jun 19, 2017 in this essay, i suggest to read the sedimenting phases of the anthropocene by using the oeuvre of italo calvino as an imaginative companion to geological processes. Ecological immunity and kim stanley robinsons 2312. Ecocriticism 315 alfred hornung 17 ecology and life writing in transnational and transcultural perspective 334 serenella iovino 18 from thomas mann to porto marghera. Material ecocriticism and the creativity of storied matter. Click download or read online button to get material ecocriticism book now. Pdf material ecocriticism serenella iovino and serpil.
Ranging from social and science studies, feminism, to anthropology, geography, environmental philosophies and animal studies, this approach is bringing innovative ways of considering matter and material relations that, coupled with reflections on agency, text, and narrativity, are going to impact ecocriticism in an unprecedented way. In material ecocriticism, edited by serenella iovino and serpil oppermann, 117. Pdf elemental ecocriticism download full pdf book download. A hybrid zone between biosemiotics and material ecocriticism. Material ecocriticism serenella iovino, serpil oppermann eds.
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