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Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept
Ecocriticism on the Edge The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept Author:Timothy Clark Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility and form of a new mode of critical theory, one that is fully engaged with the deconstructive force of the current planetary environmental crisis. Timothy Clark argues that the very scale of the environmental catastrophe - marking the passing of the anthropocene era dominated by humanity - must ov... more »erturn inherited modes of thinking and practice. It demands instead, a new form of criticism and a criticism that is more fully alive to contextual changes occurring on temporal and geographical scales far beyond the horizons of traditional theory.
Bringing together two schools of criticism that have previously been remote from each other, the book argues for a revised eco-criticism informed by the insights of deconstruction, whilst at the same time challenging Derridean deconstruction's silence on the subject of ecological catastrophe. Offering radical new readings of texts by such writers as Raymond Carver, Kim Stanley Robinson and Henry James in light of these concerns, Ecocriticism on the Edge is a major intervention in contemporary critical theory and eco-criticism.« less