The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description, the Imaginary and the Form of Environment - Hardcover

Rodriguez, David

 
9781399522922: The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description, the Imaginary and the Form of Environment
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1399522922 ISBN 13: 9781399522922
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2024

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Readers encounter the environment through literature in ways not available to everyday perception. This is especially clear when a text integrates the grand vistas of what is known as the bird's-eye view. In this welcome contribution to the contemporary theoretical discussion about storied environments and non-human perceptions, David Rodriguez presents an original interpretation of the aesthetics of the view from above. Focusing on fiction by twentieth-century American writers including Willa Cather, Paul Bowles and Don DeLillo, Rodriguez skilfully combines ecocriticism, narrative theory and phenomenological approaches to literature to develop the term 'form of environment'. This theory of literary fiction foregrounds the environment not as setting or historical context, but as an equal agent with the human figures and scales that are normally the focus of literary analysis.

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David Rodriguez is Adjunct Assistant Professor in English at Hofstra University, United States. He lives in Helsinki. His previous publications include Narrating Nonhuman Spaces: Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism (co-edited with Marco Caracciolo and Marlene Marcussen, 2021).

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[headline]Develops a new theory of literary imagination for the Anthropocene by analysing descriptions of the environment from aboveReaders encounter the environment through literature in ways not available to everyday perception. This is especially clear when a text integrates the grand vistas of what is known as the bird’s-eye view. In this welcome contribution to the contemporary theoretical discussion about storied environments and non-human perceptions, David Rodriguez presents an original interpretation of the aesthetics of the view from above. Focusing on fiction by twentieth-century American writers including Willa Cather, Paul Bowles and Don DeLillo, Rodriguez skilfully combines ecocriticism, narrative theory and phenomenological approaches to literature to develop the term ‘form of environment’. This theory of literary fiction foregrounds the environment not as setting or historical context, but as an equal agent with the human figures and scales that are normally the focus of literary analysis.[bio]David Rodriguez is Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Hofstra University in New York. His previous publications include Narrating Nonhuman Spaces: Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism (co-edited with Marco Caracciolo and Marlene Marcussen, 2021).

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1399522922
ISBN 13 
9781399522922
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Anzahl der Seiten
208
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