The dark matter of children's 'fantastika' literature : speculative entanglements /
Chloé Germaine
Bok · Engelsk · 2023 · Literary criticism.
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| Omfang | ix, 220 pages ;
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| Opplysninger | The ontoethics of entanglement in Fantastika fiction -- Occult materialism : the landscapes of classic fantasy -- Animate worlds : magical encounters in contemporary fantasy -- Minds, machines, and ghosts : consciousness in science fiction stories -- Precarious interdependence : the oceans of the ecoweird -- Speak for the trees? : the material politics of climate futures -- Postscript : thoughts on the reading experiment.. - "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"--
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| Emner | American fiction - History and criticism.
Children's stories, American - History and criticism. Children's stories, English - History and criticism. English fiction - History and criticism. Vis mer... Fantasy fiction, American - History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction, English - History and criticism. Speculative fiction, American - History and criticism. Speculative fiction, English - History and criticism. Young adult fiction, American - History and criticism. Young adult fiction, English - History and criticism. |
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| ISBN | 9781350167018. - 9781350417274
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