Nature and Narrative: Rhetoric and Design in Contemporary Fiction (1) (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

By: Markku Lehtimäki

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Synopsis: The book explores environmental issues in twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction and how those issues are dealt with by specific literary means. It proposes a reciprocal relationship between nature and narrative—the idea according to which nature both informs and inspires artistic creations, while literary designs and rhetoric also shape our ideas and perceptions of the natural environment. It is argued that in order to address design and rhetoric in environmental texts, we need a close analysis of those world-shaping functions of literary narratives that unite ecocritical and narratological interests. The author presents readings of contemporary novels and their varying ways of seeing nature through narrative devices and fictional minds. The novels discussed in the book are Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, Ian McGuire’s The North Water, Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna, Paul Harding’s Tinkers and Enon, J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, Ian McEwan’s Solar, and Jenny Offill’s Weather.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 258 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040359303
Related ISBNs:: 9781032996950, 9781040359266, 9781003605515
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 05/23/25
Copyrighted By:: Markku Lehtimäki
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature, Language Arts, Earth Sciences
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.