Overview

Reading the Environment: Olga Tokarczuk’s Fiction aims at analysing the dynamics of reading fiction in the context of accelerating climate change. This volume proposes an environment-oriented model of reading and applies it to a well-defined corpus—all existing English translations of Olga Tokarczuk’s fiction. These are: Primeval and Other Times, House of Day, House of Night, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Flights, The Books of Jacob and The Empusium, removed from the immediate cultural context of a single author, these novels give a representative sample of contemporary literature read by Anglophone people of diverse national backgrounds who live in different localities, but share one endangered planet, whether they realise it or not. The book charts five ways in which our reading protocols have shifted: the way of interconnectedness, the way of naturecultures, the way of sympoiesis, the way of Earth Island, and the way of the beginning of the Anthropocene. This book is written for an academic audience (postgraduates, researchers and academics) specialising in Environmental Humanities, Ecocriticism, World Literature, Postmodern Literature and Climate Fiction.

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Author:   Dominika Oramus
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781041025764

ISBN 10:   1041025769
Pages:   154
Publication Date:   03 September 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Ways of Reading (in) the Environment - From the Cold War to the Global Warming. Olga Tokarczuk’s Timeline - (Eco)critics on Tokarczuk Chapter 1 “The World’s slimy umbilical cords.” The Way of Interconnectedness in Primeval and Other Times - Primeval and Other Times - Interconnectedness - Of Mushrooms, Plants and Hybrids - Mourning for the Holocene Chapter 2 “The Smell of Mushrooms and Wet Hey.” The Way of Naturecultures in House of Day, House of Night - House of Day, House of Night - Naturecultures - The Ground the House is Built on - Bathed in the Orange Light Chapter 3 “How great and full of life the world is” The Way of Sympoiesis in Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Sympoiesis - Auguries of Innocence - The First Fall of Man from Unity - Calls to Heaven for Human Blood Chapter 4 “But this is the island of Bikini” The Way of Earth Island in Flights - Flights - Earth Island - The Planet of Islands - Flyover Islands - Archipelagos of order, oceans of chaos Chapter 5 “Human stupidity is responsible for introducing sadness into the world” The Way of the Beginning of Anthropocene in The Books of Jacob - The Books of Jacob - The Beginning of the Anthropocene - On the side of darkness - Framing the Anthropocene Conclusion - The three answers - The further uses of the reading (in) the environment model - “There is something wrong with the world”

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Dominika Oramus is a full professor in the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, Poland.

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