{"product_id":"close-reading-the-anthropocene-paperback","title":"Close Reading the Anthropocene - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHelena Feder\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading poetry and prose, images and art, literary and critical theory, science and cultural studies, \u003ci\u003eClose Reading the Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e explores the question of meaning, its importance and immanent potential for loss, in the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene. Both close reading and scientific ecology prioritize slowing down and looking around to apprehend similarities and differences, to recognize and value interconnections. Here \"close\" suggests careful attention to both the reading subject and read \"object.\" Moving between places, rocks, plants, animals, atmosphere, and eclipses, this interdisciplinary edited collection grounds the complex relations between text and world in the environmental humanities. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe volume's wide-ranging chapters are critical, often polemical, engagements with the question of the Anthropocene and the changing conversation around reading, interpretation, and textuality. They exemplify a range of work from across the globe and will be of great interest to scholars and students of the environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and literary studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHelena Feder\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Literature and Environment at ECU, and the author of \u003ci\u003eEcocriticism and the Idea of Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(2014\/2016) and many articles, essays, interviews, and poems. She is the editor of several journal issues and two books: \u003ci\u003eYou Are the River\u003c\/i\u003e and this volume, \u003ci\u003eClose Reading the Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 190\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 10, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42735318270015,"sku":"9780367466596","price":106.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/3ce9bd7bfd300ea5f350fcc2e77761c2.webp?v=1765143023","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/close-reading-the-anthropocene-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}