Re-creating Eden: Pastoral Post- apocalypse in the Fiction of Sam Dr Caroline Edwards Lecturer in Modern.

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
Lecture 16 Ethnicity, nationalism and conflict. Ethnicity: process not thing John Comaroff: identity is not a thing but a relation Historical construction.
Advertisements

Redefining development: Voluntary simplicity and hope social movement Séverine Deneulin and Ana Dinerstein Centre for Development Studies University of.
Nurturing the Nations Nurturing the Nations Reclaiming the Dignity of Women in Building Healthy Cultures The Bible.
Nurturing the Nations Reclaiming the Dignity of Women in Building Healthy Cultures The Bible.
The use of oral sources in the teaching of Social Sciences Prof. Laura Benadiba When we say a community “remembers”, what we are really saying is that.
New Historicism Exploring the value of history in literature A sociological and anthropological approach to criticism.
Historical Fiction. Historical fiction is…... Literature whose setting is in a particular historical time period and that utilizes real and/or imaginary.
The World of Literary Theory Feminist/Gender Psychological Marxist Cultural.
The Giver Novel Genre: Dystopia Utopia Science Fiction.
Sociology, History, Technology: Technological Determinism Along the Disciplinary Divides Kimberly Lemon June 26, 2007 Dr. Gu ENGL 8121.
Historical Realism Week 9 Lecture 1 The events of the past and the readers of the present EDU11GCL - Genres in Children’s Literature.
Learning Outcomes: ALL: Will be able to identify what Dystopia is and identify one or two common elements. MOST: Will be able to identify the common thematic.
3. shaping influence of culture and language - concepts with particular resonances (e.g. resulting from historical experience, institutions.
LITERATURE - IN ENGLISH SS1,WEEK 2
Book of Revelation Apocalyptic. Book of Revelation What do we have? Revelation or Revelations? Revelation or Revelations? Visions and/or compositions.
Writing a literary analysis essay English II Honors.
Critical Theory and Postmodernism Approaches to OS (Alvesson and Deetz 2006) Presented by Alejandra Marin Organizational Theory Seminar.
R ACHEL C ARSON : S ILENT S PRING The fountainhead of the modern environmental movement.
Modernism --the breaking away from established rules, traditions, and conventions; fresh ways of looking at a human’s position and function in the universe.
Marija Dalbello Reading Interests of Adults Science fiction Rutgers School of Communication and Information Image credit: Victor GAD.
NT520 New Testament Introduction Sessions 3-4 Approaches to Understanding the New Testament: Models and Methods.
Performing the Past, Spring 2001, Lecture 3 1 Marx (& Engels), The German Ideology ( ) Moves from critique of “idealism” in Young Hegelians, etc.
Short Story Unit Elements of Fiction English I. Think about a recent television show or movie you have seen. List the main events/details the best.
Genres A French word meaning type or kind. Genres are a classification system used to provide a way to talk about texts.
New & Other Directions Literature and Nature University of Helsinki/ Comparative Literature
LITERARY ELEMENT REVIEW. CHARACTERS Most important characters are called MAIN CHARACTERS. A main character usually has many TRAITS, mirroring the psychological.
Through the Literary Looking Glass: Critical Theory in Practice 1301.
The Pleasure of Work, continued. Book Trailers / Commercials.
Nine Lit Crit Ways of Looking at The Great Gatsby...and the rest of the world Facilitated by a great many quotes from Donald E. Hall’s Literary and Cultural.
Romance and Realism A short history of the novel.
FFocuses on language, structure, and tone IIntrinsic Reading vs. Extrinsic FFormalists study relationship between literary devices and meaning.
What type of books make up this GENRE?. Fantastic elements such as magic, aliens, talking animals, or ridiculous exaggerations.
Metafiction. Definition The prefix meta means beyond or transcending; thus the term metafiction literally means "beyond fiction." Thus metafiction can.
THE BEGINNING OF MARXIST LITERARY CRITICISM Literary Criticism Sandya Maulana, S.S.
What is literary analysis? Interpreting a text and presenting an argument for how it might be understood. What is rhetorical analysis? Analyzing the means.
Bible Study for Teachers Dan Stanley Christian Education Training Coordinator.
Research task 1 & 2 Sonam Nguyen. Genre Genre is a French word that means ‘type’ or ‘kind’ As well as, a category of artistic composition, as in music.
Genres in Literature and Film. Genres a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content French.
What is a Short Story? A short story is a relatively brief fictional narrative or story written without using any rhymes of rhythms. The short story has.
Dreams and Nightmares: Utopias and Dystopias in the Twentieth Century Presented by the New York Public Library
What do you Read?. Genre is a French word meaning kind or group It is pronounced jon-ra.
THE DYSTOPIA GENRE.
Julian Barnes Before She Met Me.
Upgrade 3 - Unit 5 Literary Genre Movie Adaptarions.
Literary Genres What is a genre? literary genre n : a style of expressing yourself in writing [syn: writing style, genre]
10/6/15 Do Now: - Take out your homework. - Take out your Catcher books and Post-It notes. Homework: - Read Chapter 5 in Catcher in the Rye Content Objective:
ELA BOOK CHALLENGE Non-Fiction Non-Fiction = writing that is not fiction; form of writing that deals with real people and events rather than imaginary.
New Historicism Exploring the value of history in literature
Introduction to Science Fiction and its History. Science Fiction (Sci-fi) is a modern genre that is fueled by the issues of the contemporary world. Sci-fi.
Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake. Margaret Atwood
Stuart Hall Who Needs ‘Identity’?.
Philosophies of Modernism. Overall Ideas of Modernism It was a literary movement of the early 20 th Century – Daring experimentation – Rejection of traditional.
Nature Writing What it is what it does what it involves.
The Victorian Age The Victorian Age It is the phase of the Reign of Queen Victoria (1837 – 1901), in which the novel becomes the leading form of literature.
Post-structuralism Literature in English ~ ASL. Structuralism VS Post-structuralism  Post-structuralism is a response to structuralism structuralism.
“What is Enlightenment?” Immanuel Kant Michel Foucault.
By the Waters of Babylon Post - apocalyptic Fiction is: 1. a type of science fiction 2. the story is set in a world or civilization after a great disaster.
Science Fiction Unit Ian Yule.
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury.
Contemporary Realistic Fiction
Is a book a classic because it sold a lot of copies?
Kurt Vonnegut & an introduction to Postmodernsim
Literary Terms Take Notes!.
Literary Terms Take Notes!.
John Locke and modern empiricism
New Historicism Exploring the value of history in literature
World Literature: Short Stories
Unit 4 Comparing Literature
Literary Terms Set One English I.
Presentation transcript:

Re-creating Eden: Pastoral Post- apocalypse in the Fiction of Sam Dr Caroline Edwards Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature Birkbeck, University of London

Bloch ’ s concept of the Noch Nicht (Not Yet) The Principle of Hope, Vols. 1, 2, 3 ( ) [1986] Anticipatory consciousness (model of the preconscious – critique of Freud) “ Real-Possible ” – concrete versus abstract utopia The “ Novum ” – radically new social content Utopian temporalities – championing of process and critique of fixity “ Warm ” and “ cold ” streams of Marxism Venturers Beyond the Limits Heritage of Our Times (1935) [1991] Ungleichzeitigkeit (non-contemporaneity) Spirit of Utopia (1918) [2000] Transmigration of spirit The Philosophy of the Future (1963) [1970] Atheism in Christianity (1968) [1972] Natural historical times

Apocalypse: the Arcadian revenge? Stanley Donwood, from Lost Angeles (2011) Recent “ecocritical turn” accompanied by a rise in post- apocalyptic and eco-catastrophe disaster novels (particularly by “literary” rather than “genre” writers) Portrayals of benevolent or verdant nature and post-human futurities Fictions of pastoral post- apocalypticism seem to reject the “hard-edged naturalism” usually associated with science fiction eco-apocalyptic narratives Can we imagine co-evolutionary strategies of agency between the natural and the human?

Engineering another time Recent fictions of biblical flood – e.g. David Maine, The Flood (2004), Will Self, The Book of Dave (2006), Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood (2009, Sam Taylor, The Island at the End of the World (2009) Pastoral “discourse of retreat” effects critique of capitalist excess – comparative critical work of the genre of post-apocalyptic literature Engineered utopia (Ben constructed the “island”) Alternative temporal modality (“this time”) outside of capitalism – has its own calendar Static present which represses the past (“the Before World”) as well as the future (the stranger); authoritarian control of history French Republican Calendar

Recreating Eden Comparative reading of The Island at the End of the World with Taylor’s first 2 novels – The Republic of Trees (2005) and The Amnesiac (2007) reveals Taylor’s preoccupation with characters’ attempts to construct their own utopian experiments These novels can be read as “critical utopias” (Tom Moylan), i.e. novels which enact utopian visions whilst simultaneously critiquing acts of authoritarian closure (Ben’s arrest of time on the “island”); Ben’s utopia fulfills the deeply conservative ambitions of pastoral-as-pejorative Michael (Republic of Trees) submits himself to the forest’s eschatological time, revealing its natural futurity beyond human chronology Taylor reverses usual categories of apocalyptic time – it is not nature that exists in a pre-historical past, but Ben that occupies a history-less pure present Natural futurity in Taylor’s texts raises important questions for the temporality of the genre of pastoral; possible strategies of co-evolutionary agency between humanity and nature