Description: How do we experience the virtual environments in literature and film on the sensory and emotional level? How do environmental narratives invite us to care for human and nonhuman others at risk? Weik von Mossner explores these questions that are important to anyone interested in the emotional, persuasive power of environmental narratives.
Brief description: Alexa Weik von Mossner is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria.
Review Quotes: "Affective Ecologies breaks genuinely new ground and uses a body of theory, concepts, and critical tools that can significantly contribute to strengthening or falsifying the claims of ecocritics about the psychological and political impacts of environmental writing and film, which have so far remained largely speculative. This is a book with real potential for transformative impact."--Ursula Heise, author of Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global.