Close Reading the Anthropocene

<p>Reading poetry and prose images and art literary and critical theory science and cultural studies <i>Close Reading the Anthropocene</i> explores the question of meaning its importance and immanent potential for loss in the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene. Both close reading and scientific ecology prioritize slowing down and looking around to apprehend similarities and differences to recognize and value interconnections. Here close suggests careful attention to both the reading subject and read object. Moving between places rocks plants animals atmosphere and eclipses this interdisciplinary edited collection grounds the complex relations between text and world in the environmental humanities. </p><p>The volume’s wide-ranging chapters are critical often polemical engagements with the question of the Anthropocene and the changing conversation around reading interpretation and textuality. They exemplify a range of work from across the globe and will be of great interest to scholars and students of the environmental humanities ecocriticism and literary studies.</p>