Vegetarianism in the Anthropocene
Richard Powers and Jonathan Franzen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5726995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Theophilus Savvas (0000-0002-8132-8272, University of Bristol, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 213-228 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Textual Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-236X • E-ISSN: 1470-1308 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0950236x.2018.1509273 |
| OpenAlex | W2887489708 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article uses the representation of vegetarianism in Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker (2006) and Jonathan Franzen’s Purity (2015) as a way to think about broader issues of ecological engagement. It argues that these issues are related to the ways in which each writer approaches questions of subjectivity and form after postmodernism. It concludes that the posthumanist dimension of Powers’ novel, achieved through formal experimentation, is a more successful engagement with the questions posed by the age of the Anthropocene than Franzen’s continued realism
Anthropocene · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Realism · Sociology · Subjectivity · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |