Reading the Environment: Olga Tokarczuks Fiction [Hardcover]

Reading the Environment: Olga Tokarczuks Fiction aims at analysing the dynamics of reading fiction in the context of accelerating climate change.?

Introduction

- Ways of Reading (in) the Environment

- From the Cold War to the Global Warming. Olga Tokarczuks Timeline

- (Eco)critics on Tokarczuk

 

Chapter 1

The Worlds slimy umbilical cords.

The Way of Interconnectedness in Primeval and Other Times

- Primeval and Other Times

- Interconnectedness

- Of Mushrooms, Plants, and Hybrids

- Mourning for the Holocene

 

Chapter 2

The Smell of Mushrooms and Wet Hey.

The Way of Naturecultures in House of Day, House of Night

- House of Day, House of Night

- Naturecultures

- The Ground the House is Built on

- Bathed in the Orange Light

 

Chapter 3

How great and full of life the world is

The Way of Sympoiesis in Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

- Sympoiesis

- Auguries of Innocence

- The First Fall of Man from Unity

- Calls to Heaven for Human Blood

 

Chapter 4

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