Fiction and the sixth mass extinction : narrative in an era of loss /: narrative in an era of loss. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jonathan Elmore.
• Editors: Elmore, Jonathan
• Contents: Telling stories about dying (out) : Thomas Pynchon's global novels and the anthropocene extinction / Michael Fuchs -- "Life finds a way" : Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, and extinction anxiety / Christy Tidwell -- "The integrity of nature" : a comparative analysis of environmental anxieties in the fictions of H.P. Lovecraft and Jeff VanderMeer / Kristin Figgins -- "My heart slowly cracks" : making kin and living through extinction in Erdrich's Future home of the living God / Bridgitte Barclay -- "You are here" : extinction as familial in The broken earth / Erin DeYoung -- The uncanny, the weird, and the eerie : hyperobjects and anthropocenic modalities in China Miéville's Three moments of an explosion / Allan Rae -- The tragic comedy of humanity : life after species extinction in Éric Chevillard's Sans l'orang-outan / Christina Lord -- Godly mass extinction : Robert J. Sawyer's Calculating God and extinction's teleologies / Jenni G Halpin.
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (202 pages)
• Subjects: 809.3936; Ecocriticism; Environmental literature; Disasters in literature; Extinction (Biology)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781793619204; 1793619204
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.