Anthropocene Affordances

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Anthropocene Affordances

Name: Anthropocene Affordances
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Scale, Narrative Form, and the Human in US-American Literature

Written by Lena Pfeifer

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The current historical moment, often referred to as the Anthropocene, is defined by profound human influence on the planetary system. Lena Pfeifer examines how contemporary US-American literature negotiates the political, ethical, and epistemological challenges posed by the Anthropocene. Connecting new formalist approaches with theories of scale, she develops the concept of »Anthropocene affordances« as a new methodological framework for analyzing narrative responses to the recent ecological crisis that reconfigure conventional forms and narrative strategies to critically discuss the role of the human as a geological force.

Lena Pfeifer received her doctorate in American Studies/Environmental Humanities at the University of Würzburg, where she has also been working as a research assistant since 2021. Her research focuses on environmental writing of the 20^th and 21^st centuries, discourses of the Anthropocene, climate fiction, new formalism, and nuclear cultures.

ISBN-13: 9783837679335
Publisher: transcript
Imprint: transcript
Publication date: 17 November 2025
Format: Paperback
Pages: 282
Dimensions: 225 x 148 mm
Language: English