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Death By Landscape

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Product Code: 9781593767150
ISBN13: 9781593767150
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From the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of ?fan nonfiction? about living and writing in the age of extinction In this constellation of essays, Elvia Wilk asks what kinds of narratives will help us rethink our human perspective toward Earth. The book begins as an exploration of the role of fiction today and becomes a deep interrogation of the writing process and the self. Wilk examines creative works across time and genre in order to break down binaries between dystopia and utopia, real and imagined, self and world. She makes connections between works by such wide-ranging writers as Mark Fisher, Karen Russell, Han Kang, Doris Lessing, Anne Carson, Octavia E. Butler, Michelle Tea, Helen Phillips, Kathe Koja, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, and Hildegard von Bingen. What happens when research becomes personal, when the observer breaks through the glass? Through the eye of the fan, this collection delves into literal and literary world-building projects?medieval monasteries, solarpunk futures, vampire role plays, environments devoid of humans?bridging the micro and the macro and revealing how our relationship to narrative shapes our relationships to the natural world and to one another.





Author: Elvia Wilk
Publisher: Soft Skull
Publication Date: Jul 19, 2022
Number of Pages: 320 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback/Social Science
ISBN-10: 1593767153
ISBN-13: 9781593767150

Death By Landscape

$16.95
$16.09
Sale 5%
 
From the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of ?fan nonfiction? about living and writing in the age of extinction In this constellation of essays, Elvia Wilk asks what kinds of narratives will help us rethink our human perspective toward Earth. The book begins as an exploration of the role of fiction today and becomes a deep interrogation of the writing process and the self. Wilk examines creative works across time and genre in order to break down binaries between dystopia and utopia, real and imagined, self and world. She makes connections between works by such wide-ranging writers as Mark Fisher, Karen Russell, Han Kang, Doris Lessing, Anne Carson, Octavia E. Butler, Michelle Tea, Helen Phillips, Kathe Koja, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, and Hildegard von Bingen. What happens when research becomes personal, when the observer breaks through the glass? Through the eye of the fan, this collection delves into literal and literary world-building projects?medieval monasteries, solarpunk futures, vampire role plays, environments devoid of humans?bridging the micro and the macro and revealing how our relationship to narrative shapes our relationships to the natural world and to one another.





Author: Elvia Wilk
Publisher: Soft Skull
Publication Date: Jul 19, 2022
Number of Pages: 320 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback/Social Science
ISBN-10: 1593767153
ISBN-13: 9781593767150
 

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