'Our human boundaries were overrun': coextensive bodies and environments in contemporary American fiction
This dissertation examines contemporary American novelists whose depictions of how humans relate to the natural world challenge dominant Western cultural assumptions about human autonomy. My analysis centers on Marilynne Robinson, Louise Erdrich, and Richard Powers. Scholarship has largely understoo...
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27399 |