Enchanting Irruptions : Wonder, Noir, and the Environmental Imaginary

This thesis investigates narratives of re-enchantment and disenchantment in three contemporary U.S. novels, Lydia Millet’s Mermaids in Paradise, Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, and Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice. Drawing on key concepts from ecocritcism and affect theory, I argue that these...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Palmer, Ryan
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Engelska institutionen 2017
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-334648