Description:
Through its analysis of several contemporary novels, the study proposes a reciprocal relationship between nature and narrative, arguing that nature both informs and inspires artistic creations, while literary designs and rhetoric also shape our ideas and perceptions of nature.
Review Quotes:
Markku Lehtimäki's stimulating close readings help us see how the rhetoric of contemporary fiction grapples with a wide range of ecological questions, addressing the colonial roots of the climate crisis while imagining its destabilizing influence on everyday life.
- Marco Caracciolo, Associate Professor, Ghent University, Belgium
Nature and Narrative: Rhetoric and Design in Contemporary Fiction is a timely and important contribution to the ecocritical and eco-narratological discussion. Combining environmental literary studies with rhetorical narrative theory and emphasizing humanist ecocriticism, the book sheds new light on a range of prominent novels from the 21st century.
- Alice Sundman, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stockholm University, Sweden