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The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description, the Imaginary and the Form of Environment

Name: The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description, the Imaginary and the Form of Environment
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 9781399522922
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Contributors:

David Rodriguez

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Literary Criticism, Nature

Book Subcategory:

Subjects & Themes, American, Ecology

Book Topic:

Nature

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Release Date:

2024-01-12

ISBN 13:

9781399522922

Weight:

1.03 lbs

Size:

9.21 x 6.14 x 0.50 inches

Pages:

208

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Readers encounter the environment through literature in ways not available to everyday perception. This is especially clear when a text integrates the grand vistas of what is known as the bird's-eye view. In this welcome contribution to the contemporary theoretical discussion about storied environments and non-human perceptions, David Rodriguez presents an original interpretation of the aesthetics of the view from above. Focusing on fiction by twentieth-century American writers including Willa Cather, Paul Bowles and Don DeLillo, Rodriguez skilfully combines ecocriticism, narrative theory and phenomenological approaches to literature to develop the term 'form of environment'. This theory of literary fiction foregrounds the environment not as setting or historical context, but as an equal agent with the human figures and scales that are normally the focus of literary analysis.

About the Author

David Rodriguez is Adjunct Assistant Professor in English at Hofstra University, United States. He lives in Helsinki. His previous publications include Narrating Nonhuman Spaces: Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism (co-edited with Marco Caracciolo and Marlene Marcussen, 2021).

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