Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction
ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
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Automated compilation of Urdu poetry handwritten image datasets for optical character recognition. [PDF]
Ijaz I +6 more
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Productive Destruction: Torture, Text, and the Body in the Old English \u27Andreas\u27
Writing in the Old English Andreas is at once both a productive and a destructive activity. We first become aware of the dangerous power of the written word quite early in the poem, when we learn that the Mermedonians have subverted the normally ...
Fee, Christopher R.
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“The Future Is Ancestral”: The Environmental Cuir Utopias of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
ABSTRACT Argentinian author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara identifies as a “socio‐environmentalist and writer” and has been actively involved in the feminist movement #NiUnaMenos since 2015, alongside her growing engagement with environmental activism. She advocates for Indigenous land rights, water accessibility, and challenges offshore petroleum extraction ...
Victoria Jara
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Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric-gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry. [PDF]
Eising H +5 more
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Some rhetorical strategies in later nineteenth-century laboring-class poetry [PDF]
Goodridge, J
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Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction
ABSTRACT Although we live in the Anthropocene—the geological age of humankind, wherein humans have measurably impacted the biosphere—we struggle to narrate the Anthropocene. In particular, we struggle to give narrative shape to its foremost feature: anthropogenic climate change.
Mark Celeste
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"Where it's okay if we die": Exploring Older Canadians' Perspective on Long-Term Care Through Found Poetry. [PDF]
Joanisse C +10 more
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Subsistence Through Disappearance: Theology of the Unseen in the Films of Michelangelo Antonioni
ABSTRACT The present study contends that the theology of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s cinema is structured by a reductio ad absurdum logic, whereby the presence of certain qualities is proven by the portrayal of their absence. It is argued that Antonioni's intention to show what is by specifying what is not may have been rooted in a modernist ...
Vuk Uskoković
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