{"product_id":"spaces-and-fictions-of-the-weird-and-the-fantastic-ecologies-geographies-oddities-9783030281151","title":"Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as crucial for any understanding of current forms of “weird” and “fantastic” literature and culture. Given their focus on the culturally marginal, unknown, and “other,” these genres figure as diagnostic modes of storytelling, outlining the latent anxieties and social dynamics that define a culture’s “structure of feeling” at a given historical moment. The contributions in this volume map the long and continuous tradition of weird and fantastic fiction as a seismograph for eco-geographical turmoil from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, offering innovative and insightful ecocritical readings of H. P. Lovecraft, Harriet Prescott Spofford, China Miéville, N. K. Jemisin, Thomas Ligotti, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword: Weird Geographies, Fantastic Maps\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert T. Tally, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1          Introduction: Ecologies and Geographies of the Weird and the Fantastic\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e            Julius Greve and Florian Zappe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2          \u003ci\u003eNaturhorror \u003c\/i\u003eand the Weird\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            \u003ci\u003eEugene Thacker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3          Uncanny New Worlds in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “D’Outre Mort” and “The Black      Bess”\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            \u003ci\u003eMichaela Keck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4          The Weird and the Wild: Media Ecologies of the Outré-Normative \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            \u003ci\u003eJulius Greve\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5          Queering the Weird: Unnatural Participations and the Mucosal in H. P. Lovecraft and       Occulture\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            \u003ci\u003ePatricia MacCormack\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6          Geological Insurrections: Politics of Planetary Weirding from China Miéville to \u003c\/p\u003e              N. K. Jemisin  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            \u003ci\u003eMoritz Ingwersen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7          “Indifference would be such a relief”: Race and Weird Geography in Victor LaValle         and Matt Ruff’s Dialogues with H. P. Lovecraft\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            \u003ci\u003eJames Kneale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8          The Oceanic Weird, Wet Ontologies, and Hydro-Criticism in China Miéville’s \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            \u003ci\u003eThe Scar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            \u003ci\u003eJolene Mathieson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e9          “Through the eyes of Area X”: (Dis)locating Ecological Hope via New Weird        Spatiality\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            \u003ci\u003eGry Ulstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e10        Inexistent Ink: Michael Cisco and Quentin Meillassoux on Writing Worlds\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            \u003ci\u003eBen Woodard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11        Notes on the Alluring Weirdness of (Materialist) Rumination and Regurgitation:    Reading Ariana Reines and Jamie Stewart\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            \u003ci\u003eMarius Henderson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e12        Spaces of Communal Misery: The Weird Post-Capitalism of \u003ci\u003eBeasts of the Southern            Wild\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            \u003ci\u003eMarlon Lieber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043558818135,"sku":"9783030281151","price":85.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783030281151.jpg?v=1750958691","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/spaces-and-fictions-of-the-weird-and-the-fantastic-ecologies-geographies-oddities-9783030281151","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}