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Chapter 4 - The Novel

from Part I - Anthropocene Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2021

By
Astrid Bracke
Edited by
John Parham
John Parham
Affiliation:
University of Worcester
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Summary

This chapter engages with questions around the possibilities and limitations of the novel and narrative in the Anthropocene. It addresses these challenges by drawing on and extending work in econarratology, and applying it to three novels in which floods depict the impact of climate change. In navigating the spatial, temporal and representational challenges of imagining climate crisis, these novels achieve a switching back and forth between the reader's actual world and the textual world. It is this back and forth, and the realisation that results from it, that is central to the role that the novel as a genre might play in depicting the Anthropocene.

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contemporary noveleconarratologyflood fiction
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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene , pp. 88 - 101
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • The Novel
  • Edited by John Parham, University of Worcester
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene
  • Online publication: 28 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108683111.006
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  • The Novel
  • Edited by John Parham, University of Worcester
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene
  • Online publication: 28 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108683111.006
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  • The Novel
  • Edited by John Parham, University of Worcester
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene
  • Online publication: 28 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108683111.006
Available formats
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