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Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic Julius Greve

Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic By Julius Greve

Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic by Julius Greve


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Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities by Julius Greve

This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as crucial for any understanding of current forms of weird and fantastic literature and culture. Given their focus on the culturally marginal, unknown, and other, these genres figure as diagnostic modes of storytelling, outlining the latent anxieties and social dynamics that define a culture's structure of feeling at a given historical moment. The contributions in this volume map the long and continuous tradition of weird and fantastic fiction as a seismograph for eco-geographical turmoil from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, offering innovative and insightful ecocritical readings of H. P. Lovecraft, Harriet Prescott Spofford, China Mieville, N. K. Jemisin, Thomas Ligotti, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others.


About Julius Greve

Julius Greve is Lecturer and Research Associate at the Institute for English and American Studies, University of Oldenburg, Germany, and the author of Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature (2018).

Florian Zappe is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany. He has published monographs on William S. Burroughs and Kathy Acker and a variety of essays on (post)modern literature, cinema, and theory.


Table of Contents

Foreword: Weird Geographies, Fantastic Maps

Robert T. Tally, Jr.

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: Ecologies and Geographies of the Weird and the Fantastic

Julius Greve and Florian Zappe

2 Naturhorror and the Weird

Eugene Thacker

3 Uncanny New Worlds in Harriet Prescott Spofford's D'Outre Mort and The Black Bess

Michaela Keck

4 The Weird and the Wild: Media Ecologies of the Outre-Normative

Julius Greve

5 Queering the Weird: Unnatural Participations and the Mucosal in H. P. Lovecraft and Occulture

Patricia MacCormack

6 Geological Insurrections: Politics of Planetary Weirding from China Mieville to

N. K. Jemisin

Moritz Ingwersen

7 Indifference would be such a relief: Race and Weird Geography in Victor LaValle and Matt Ruff's Dialogues with H. P. Lovecraft

James Kneale

8 The Oceanic Weird, Wet Ontologies, and Hydro-Criticism in China Mieville's

The Scar

Jolene Mathieson

9 Through the eyes of Area X: (Dis)locating Ecological Hope via New Weird Spatiality

Gry Ulstein

10 Inexistent Ink: Michael Cisco and Quentin Meillassoux on Writing Worlds

Ben Woodard

11 Notes on the Alluring Weirdness of (Materialist) Rumination and Regurgitation: Reading Ariana Reines and Jamie Stewart

Marius Henderson

12 Spaces of Communal Misery: The Weird Post-Capitalism of Beasts of the Southern Wild

Marlon Lieber

Contributors

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NLS9783030281182
9783030281182
3030281183
Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities by Julius Greve
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2020-11-27
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