Reading the Environment
Olga Tokarczuk’s Fiction
Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 3 September 2025
- ISBN 9781041025764
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages162 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 460 g
- Language English 692
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Short description:
Reading the Environment: Olga Tokarczuk’s Fiction aims at analysing the dynamics of reading fiction in the context of accelerating climate change.
MoreLong description:
Reading the Environment: Olga Tokarczuk’s Fiction aims at analysing the dynamics of reading fiction in the context of accelerating climate change. This volume proposes an environment-oriented model of reading and applies it to a well-defined corpus—all existing English translations of Olga Tokarczuk’s fiction. These are: Primeval and Other Times, House of Day, House of Night, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Flights, The Books of Jacob and The Empusium, removed from the immediate cultural context of a single author, these novels give a representative sample of contemporary literature read by Anglophone people of diverse national backgrounds who live in different localities, but share one endangered planet, whether they realise it or not. The book charts five ways in which our reading protocols have shifted: the way of interconnectedness, the way of naturecultures, the way of sympoiesis, the way of Earth Island, and the way of the beginning of the Anthropocene. This book is written for an academic audience (postgraduates, researchers and academics) specialising in Environmental Humanities, Ecocriticism, World Literature, Postmodern Literature and Climate Fiction.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
- Ways of Reading (in) the Environment
- From the Cold War to the Global Warming. Olga Tokarczuk’s Timeline
- (Eco)critics on Tokarczuk
Chapter 1
“The World’s slimy umbilical cords.”
The Way of Interconnectedness in Primeval and Other Times
- Primeval and Other Times
- Interconnectedness
- Of Mushrooms, Plants, and Hybrids
- Mourning for the Holocene
Chapter 2
“The Smell of Mushrooms and Wet Hey.”
The Way of Naturecultures in House of Day, House of Night
- House of Day, House of Night
- Naturecultures
- The Ground the House is Built on
- Bathed in the Orange Light
Chapter 3
“How great and full of life the world is”
The Way of Sympoiesis in Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- Sympoiesis
- Auguries of Innocence
- The First Fall of Man from Unity
- Calls to Heaven for Human Blood
Chapter 4
“But this is the island of Bikini”: The Way of Earth Island in Flights
- Flights
- Earth Island
- The Planet of Islands
- Flyover Islands
- Archipelagos of Order, Oceans of Chaos
Chapter 5
“Human stupidity is responsible for introducing sadness into the world”: The Way of the Beginning of Anthropocene in The Books of Jacob
- The Books of Jacob
- The Beginning of the Anthropocene
- On the Side of Darkness
- Framing the Anthropocene
Conclusion
- The Three Answers
- The Further Uses of the Reading (in) the environment Model
- “There is something wrong with the world”
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