Description:
Monika Kaup pairs post-apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, José Saramago, Octavia Butler and Cormac McCarthy with new realist theories from Bruno Latour, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Markus Gabriel, Jean-Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis.
Brief description: Monika Kaup is Professor of English at the University of Washington. She is the author of Neobaroque in the Americas: Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film (University of Virginia Press 2012) and she is co-editor of Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest (Duke University Press 2010).
Review Quotes:
[...] Kaup's book is an original and instructive work, so much so as to be useful as an introduction to the intersections between various new realist theories, as well as a skilful demonstration of their applications for literary analysis.
--Antonia Spencer "The comparatist"