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Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty Professor Marco Caracciolo

Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty By Professor Marco Caracciolo

Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty by Professor Marco Caracciolo


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Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures by Professor Marco Caracciolo

This open access book argues that storytelling is an important resource in coming to terms with the loss of the feeling of living a grounded existence where the future remains relatively stable and predictable. Faced with the specter of climate catastrophe, we lose confidence in the futurea well-documented response in the environmental movement, for example. Yet stories, and in particular sophisticated fictional stories, can help us negotiate that uncertainty: they offer affective and imaginative tools that channel the instability of our climate future and invite audiences to accept its fundamental uncertainty. In all, this book represents a serious contribution to the environmental humanities that brings a flexible formal approach to bear on central questions of our time. Its commentary on contemporary works of prose and digital narrative is an aid for navigating climate uncertainty and appreciating the more-than-human scalebut also the tragic ramificationsof the ecological crisis. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The European Research Council and the University of Ghent.

About Professor Marco Caracciolo

Marco Caracciolo is Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University, Belgium.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1, Uncertainty in the Future Tense Chapter 2, Pathways to Unstable Worlds Chapter 3, Strange Animals and Metonymic Mysteries Chapter 4, The Meta and the Uncertain Chapter 5, Deus Ex Algorithmo Chapter 6, Ecologies of Interactive Narrative Coda, Weathering Uncertainty, with Jenny Offill

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NPB9781350233935
9781350233935
1350233935
Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures by Professor Marco Caracciolo
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2023-10-19
232
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