Description: "Already in the nineteenth century, German-language writers were contending with the challenge of imagining and accounting for a planet whose volatility bore little resemblance to the images of the Earth then in circulation. The Geological Unconscious traces the withdrawal of the lithosphere as a reliable setting, unobtrusive backdrop, and stable point of reference for literature written well before the current climate breakdown"--
Brief description: Jason Groves is Assistant Professor of Germanics at the University of Washington. He is cotranslator of Werner Hamacher's Minima Philologica.
Review Quotes: "The Geological Unconscious offers subtle close readings of several canonical texts that receive provocative illumination from ecocriticism. The book's focus on the instability of ground is insightfully paired with a consideration of how already in the nineteenth century literary style and narrative register geological time and planetary wounding."---Catriona MacLeod, University of Chicago