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Anthropocene Consciousness, Time Loops, and Anticipatory Collective Trauma in Narratives of Anthropogenic Environmental Disaster
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 171–195.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Hilary Duffield Abstract The article analyses science fiction texts featuring time loops from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. Within its historical-environmental framework it proposes the term Anthropocene consciousness to refer to the historical process of accumulating knowledge, in both human...
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Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 415–418.
Published: 01 June 2022
... in this volume, is understood as “the paired consideration of material environments and their representations and narrative forms of understanding” (1), and situates itself within the broader field of the environmental humanities, with close links to ecocriticism and to literary studies of the Anthropocene...
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Narrative Loops and Climate Futures: A Form for Uncertain Times
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 151–169.
Published: 01 March 2025
... activities affect the planet as a whole and even leave a geological mark—that is the idea behind the widely cited, if controversial, idea of the Anthropocene. 3 The loop is a form that implies repetition and difference; it is an unstable form that always brings in the possibility of (more or less...
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Emplotment beyond the Human Scale: On Deep Time and Narrative Nonlinearity
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in Joseph Frank's ( 1945 ) sense. Cognitive-linguistic arguments suggest that such spatial traces or forms underlie the construction of abstract concepts (as discussed above). 12. The label Anthropocene , introduced by a scientist, Paul Crutzen (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000 ), has been increasingly...
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Narrative Forms of Adaptation, Retreat, and Mitigation in Richard Ford's Let Me Be Frank with You
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 127–147.
Published: 01 March 2022
... ) seminal book Forms , such as by Pieter Vermeulen ( 2018 : 10), who, in his study of Station Eleven , argues that “literary engagements with climate change are invested . . . in exploring novel configurations of life and form,” or Marco Caracciolo's study “Form, Science, and Narrative in the Anthropocene...
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Notes on Contributors
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (3): 467–469.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene (2021). Philippe Carrard is professor emeritus of French literature at the University of Vermont and currently a visiting scholar in the Program of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on conventions of writing...
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Notes on Contributors
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 295–297.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and comparative literature at the University of Leuven. He is the author of Contemporary Literature and the End of the Novel: Creature, Affect, Form (2015) and Literature and the Anthropocene (2020), and a coeditor of Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets (2016) and Memory Unbound...
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Queer Futures for an Aging Planet
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 157–179.
Published: 01 June 2023
... . London : Vintage . Bloch Ernst . ( 1954 ) 1986. The Principle of Hope . Vol. 1 . Cambridge : MIT Press . Buell Lawrence . 2016 . “ Anthropocene Panic: Contemporary Ecocriticism and the Issue of Human Numbers .” Frame 29 , no. 2 : 11 – 27 . Butler Octavia E . 2007...
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Assessing Narrative Space: From Setting to Narrative Environments
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 March 2024
... temporalities of the ocean,” which are defined by longer, nonhuman time frames in what DeLoughrey ( 2017 : 33) calls “sea ontologies,” ecology time frames with slower tempos to match the environmental (Nixon 2011 ) and geological levels (for the Anthropocene in James 2020 ). Thus just as the island...
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 March 2025
... catastrophe. In her essay, “Anthropocene Consciousness, Time Loops, and Anticipatory Collective Trauma in Narratives of Anthropogenic Environmental Disaster,” Duffield outlines how the science fiction of time travel allows for timescales far beyond those of literary realism. The larger temporal scope...
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Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (3): 461–465.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to the transhistorical possibilities of elegy for the Anthropocene reader. Pausing on Tennyson's imperative to “let the ape and tiger die,” Taylor explores how In Memoriam 's treatment of evolution, extinction, and geological time help us conceptualize the environmental losses of the present age. These essays make...
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Reading Ambient Literature: Immersion, Distraction, and the Situated Reading Experience
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 301–315.
Published: 01 June 2021
... . Ambient Literature: Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices . London : Palgrave Macmillan . Dovey Jon , and Speakman Duncan . 2018 . “Jon Dovey and Duncan Speakman: Anthropocene Elegy and GeoSpatial Presence .” Media Theory 2 , no. 1 . http...
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Aging through Precarious Time: Maintenance and Milling in The Cost of Living and Weather
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 89–110.
Published: 01 June 2023
... . Weeks Kathi . 2011 . The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Woodward Kathleen . 2020 . “ Ageing in the Anthropocene: The View from and beyond Margaret Drabble's The Dark Flood Rises .” Literature...
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Returning Again: Resurrection Narratives and Afterlife Aesthetics in Contemporary Television Drama
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 395–416.
Published: 01 September 2020
... .” In Leeder 2015 : 253 – 70 .
Resurrection . 2014–15 . ABC Television (American Broadcasting Corporation) .
The Returned . 2015 . A&E Studios .
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2016 . “ Literature, Ethics, and Bushfire in the Anthropocene .” In Humanities for the Environment: Integrating...
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From Swallowing the Red Pill to Failing to Build the Wall: Allusive Cognitive Metaphors in Advocating Political and Extremist Views
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 309–334.
Published: 01 June 2022
... . 2017 . “ Creative Metaphor in Literature .” In Semino and Demjén 2017 : 206 – 18 . Caracciolo Marco , Ionescu Andrei , and Fransoo Ruben . 2019 . “ Metaphorical Patterns in Anthropocene Fiction .” Language and Literature 28 , no. 3 : 221 – 40 . Dawson...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 191–218.
Published: 01 June 2022
... . Caracciolo Marco . 2021 . Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press . Coetzee J. M. 2009 . Summertime . London : Harvill Secker . Currie Gregory . 2010 . Narrative and Narrators: A Philosophy of Stories . Oxford...
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Historical Poetics between Russia and the West: Toward a Nonlinear Model of Literary History and Social Ontology
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 453–483.
Published: 01 September 2017
... between Russia and the West 469
openness and unfinalizedness [nezavershennost’ ], memory of that which does not
coincide with itself.10
It is worth observing that this account of “great memory”—which we might
say today operates at the level of the Anthropocene and beyond — differs in
significant...
