Hyperobject reading, scale variance, and American fiction in the Anthropocene / Chingshun J. Sheu.
Sheu, Chingshun J. author.
2023
PN771 .S54 2023
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Title Hyperobject reading, scale variance, and American fiction in the Anthropocene / Chingshun J. Sheu.
Author Sheu, Chingshun J. author.
ISBN 9783031256394 electronic book
3031256395 electronic book
9783031256387
3031256387
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25639-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 180 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-25639-4 doi
Call Number PN771 .S54 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.04
Summary This book proposes a model of reading called hyperobject reading that bridges the Anthropocene scale variance between humans and humanity by focusing on the large-scale problems and phenomena themselves. Hyperobject reading draws on narratology and reader-response theory, as well as newer developments such as the postcritical turn and object-oriented ontology. The theoretical introduction sets out the building blocks of hyperobject reading. Chapter 2 intervenes in critical disability studies and debates about the ecosomatic paradigm; Chapter 3 intervenes in debates about technological evolution, analogue vs. digital subjectivity, and affect theory; and Chapter 4 intervenes in debates about autofiction, contemporary metafiction, and the position and role of the narrator in first-person narratives where the narrator and protagonist can be distinguished. The analytical conclusion sketches the conceptual anatomy of the hyperobject and three possible responses. No part of the Earth today is free from human influence, but literary success suggests effective real-world strategies. Chingshun J. Sheu is Assistant Professor of Applied English at Ming Chuan University. His research focuses on contemporary American fiction, literary theory, narratology, and Alain Badiou. Having published essays on William Gaddis, Orson Scott Card, and Taiwanese author Chang Hsiu-ya, he is also the premier English-language film critic in Taiwan.
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Hyperobject Reading
Chapter 2. A Dialectical Nexus of Objects: Disability as Hyperobject in Joshua Ferris's The Unnamed
Chapter 3. Living in an Object-Oriented Universe: The Digital as Hyperobject in Tao Lin's Taipei
Chapter 4. Fighting One Hyperobject with Another: Narrative as Hyperobject in Ben Lerner's 10:04
Chapter 5. Conclusion: Anthropocene Lessons from a Distant Fictional Hyperobject .

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