{"product_id":"anthropocene-fictions-the-novel-in-a-time-of-climate-change-paperback","title":"Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam Trexler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction. This period of observable human impact on the Earth's ecosystems has been called the Anthropocene Age. The anthropogenic climate change that has impacted the Earth has also affected our literature, but criticism of the contemporary novel has not adequately recognized the literary response to this level of environmental crisis. Ecocriticism's theories of place and planet, meanwhile, are troubled by a climate that is neither natural nor under human control. \u003ci\u003eAnthropocene Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e is the first systematic examination of the hundreds of novels that have been written about anthropogenic climate change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on climatology, the sociology and philosophy of science, geography, and environmental economics, Adam Trexler argues that the novel has become an essential tool to construct meaning in an age of climate change. The novel expands the reach of climate science beyond the laboratory or model, turning abstract predictions into subjectively tangible experiences of place, identity, and culture. Political and economic organizations are also being transformed by their struggle for sustainability. In turn, the novel has been forced to adapt to new boundaries between truth and fabrication, nature and economies, and individual choice and larger systems of natural phenomena. \u003ci\u003eAnthropocene Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e argues that new modes of inhabiting climate are of the utmost critical and political importance, when unprecedented scientific consensus has failed to lead to action. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnder the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Trexler is an independent scholar living in Portland, Oregon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 20, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130535743623,"sku":"9780813936925","price":61.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/09cdc2c5bbe1c6e193534a7eb18cb960.webp?v=1732611700","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/anthropocene-fictions-the-novel-in-a-time-of-climate-change-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}