Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Notes Toward New Econarratologies
Erin James and Eric Morel
I. Narratology and the Nonhuman
1 Unnatural Narratology and Weird Realism in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
Jon Hegglund
2 Object-Oriented Plotting and Nonhuman Realities in DeLillo’s Underworld and Iñárritu’s Babel
Marco Caracciolo
II. Econarratological Rhetoric and Ethics
3 Readerly Dynamics in Dynamic Climatic Times: Cli-Fi and Rhetorical Narrative Theory
Eric Morel
4 A Comedy of Survival: Narrative Progression and the Rhetoric of Climate Change in Ian McEwan’s Solar
Markku Lehtimäki
5 Ecocriticism as Narrative Ethics: Triangulating Environmental Virtue in Richard Powers’s Gain
Greg Garrard
III. Anthropocene Storyworlds
6 Feeling Narrative Environments: Cognitive Econarratology, Embodiment, and Emotion
Alexa Weik von Mossner
7 Finding a Practical Narratology in the Work of Restoration Ecology
Matthew M. Low
8 Worldmaking Environmental Crisis: Climate Fiction, Econarratology, and Genre
Astrid Bracke
9 Narrative in the Anthropocene
Erin James
Afterword
Ursula K. Heise
Contributors
Index