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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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Uppsala universitet, Engelska institutionen
2017
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-334648 |