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Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

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Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
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A new Anthropocene aesthetics: Mediating Harman, Morton, and Boysen

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Abstract Practitioners of Object‐Oriented Ontology (OOO) have critiqued the metaphysical assumptions of contemporary poetry, and particularly the position of the lyric speaker. Scholars such as Graham Harman and Timothy Morton have positioned themselves as critics of these lyric sensibilities. In recent years, concerns have risen around their critiques
Chase Cate
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Speaking for Dionysus: Empathy and choral advocacy in Aristotle and Nietzsche

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Abstract This essay argues for an abiding connection between empathy and advocacy by revealing their unrecognized parallels in Aristotle and Nietzsche. The argument makes three new claims. First, I identify an ancient form of sharing emotions, unnamed in but fundamental to Aristotle's Rhetoric, that I call “empathy by analogy.” Next, I show that the ...
Ellwood Wiggins
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Narrator, character, other: Kafka’s triangle in Fürsprecher

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Abstract Franz Kafka's protagonists are conspicuously featureless, and yet Kafka is persistently read as a fabulist of the plight of the individual before impervious, impersonal, and indifferent legal structures. How can Kafka champion the individual against such forces when his heroes do not have personalities to lose?
Lindsay O’Connor Stern
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“Dogs make people human:” Toward a tender interspecies understanding in Sigrid Nunez's The Friend (2018)

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Abstract The critical and popular appeal of Sigrid Nunez's The Friend (2018), which centers on the bond between an unnamed female writer and a Great Dane, Apollo, suggests that readers are drawn to thoughtful explorations of human–animal encounters in literature.
Martyna Bryla
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