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Beschreibung
"Following the 'material turn' in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children's fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in the 21st century. It develops the concept of 'entanglement', which originated in 20th century quantum physics but has been applied to cultural critique, through a reading of Fantastika literature. It surveys a wide-raging scope of literary texts, covering the gothic, fantasy and other forms of speculative fiction, to argue that Fantastika positions entanglemet as an ethical imperative that transforms our imaginative relationship with materiality. In doing so, it synthesizes perspectives from a similarly diverse range of areas, including ecology, physics, anthropology, biology and literary studies to examine the storied matter of children's Fantastika as ground from which we might to begin to imagine an as-yet-unrealised future that addresses the problems of our present"--
"Following the 'material turn' in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children's fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in the 21st century. It develops the concept of 'entanglement', which originated in 20th century quantum physics but has been applied to cultural critique, through a reading of Fantastika literature. It surveys a wide-raging scope of literary texts, covering the gothic, fantasy and other forms of speculative fiction, to argue that Fantastika positions entanglemet as an ethical imperative that transforms our imaginative relationship with materiality. In doing so, it synthesizes perspectives from a similarly diverse range of areas, including ecology, physics, anthropology, biology and literary studies to examine the storied matter of children's Fantastika as ground from which we might to begin to imagine an as-yet-unrealised future that addresses the problems of our present"--
Über den Autor
Chloé Germaine is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and a co-director of the Manchester Game Centre.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The ontoethics of entanglement in Fantastika
1. Occult materialism: The landscapes of classic fantasy
2. Animate worlds: Magical encounters in contemporary fantasy
3. Minds, machines, and ghosts: Consciousness in science fiction stories
4. Precarious interdependence: The oceans of the ecoweird
5. Speak for the trees: The material politics of climate futures
6. Postscript: Thoughts on the reading experiment
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781350417274
ISBN-10: 1350417270
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Germaine, Chloe
Redaktion: Sainsbury, Lisa
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Chloe Germaine
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.04.2025
Gewicht: 0,36 kg
Artikel-ID: 133614257

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