Writing Ecofiction: Navigating the Challenges of Environmental Narrative

Manwaring, Kevan

Writing Ecofiction: Navigating the Challenges of Environmental Narrative
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-20
  • 售價: $1,360
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,292
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 251
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031550900
  • ISBN-13: 9783031550904

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商品描述

This creative writing textbook introduces students to ecofiction: narrative writing that focuses on the environment. Also known as 'climate fiction' or 'cli-fi', an increasing number of short story writers, novelists and pioneers of emerging forms such as interactive fiction are taking up the call to develop their own creative responses to the climate crisis. This guide explores a cross-section of genres and ways of writing about our world, as well as the ethical and technical challenges involved. It offers a discussion of classic and contemporary texts, literary criticism and creative writing exercises. The book covers a broad range of themes and styles of writing, from works that engage with nature and landscape writing to those that take a more activist approach to climate change. With an awareness of the Global South and the subaltern, the framing of the Anthropocene, wilderness and nature writing is challenged. Each chapter offers a new perspective on ecofiction for the creative writer, with reading suggestions and connections to other writers and texts, and writing activities. Designed for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate writing modules on the environment, the book is also suitable for independent writers looking to expand their skillset.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本創意寫作教材介紹了生態小說：一種著重於環境的敘事寫作。也被稱為「氣候小說」或「氣候科幻」，越來越多的短篇小說作家、小說家和新興形式（如互動小說）的先驅者正回應氣候危機的呼喚，開展他們自己的創意寫作。本指南探索了各種文類和寫作方式，以及相關的倫理和技術挑戰。它提供了對經典和當代文本、文學評論和創意寫作練習的討論。本書涵蓋了廣泛的主題和寫作風格，從與自然和景觀寫作相關的作品到更積極應對氣候變化的作品。在關注全球南方和次級主體的同時，本書對人類世的框架、荒野和自然寫作提出了質疑。每一章都為創意作家提供了對生態小說的新視角，並提供閱讀建議、與其他作家和文本的聯繫以及寫作活動。本書設計用於高年級本科和研究生環境寫作課程，也適合獨立作家擴展他們的技能。

作者簡介

Kevan Manwaring is the MA Creative Writing Course Leader at Arts University Bournemouth, UK. He is the author of Desiring Dragons: creativity, imagination, and the writer's quest, contributor to Storytelling for Nature Connection, and Coastal Environments in Popular Song, and editor of Heavy Weather: tempestuous tales of stranger climes. He has contributed articles to Writing in Practice, New Writing, TEXT, Axon, English Review, Revenant and Gothic Nature. He was an academic consultant for BBC 4's The Secret Life of Books, and is a panellist on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking. He is also a member of the Climate Fiction Writers League.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Kevan Manwaring是英國波恩茅斯藝術大學MA創意寫作課程的領導者。他是《Desiring Dragons: creativity, imagination, and the writer's quest》的作者，也是《Storytelling for Nature Connection》和《Coastal Environments in Popular Song》的撰稿人，並且是《Heavy Weather: tempestuous tales of stranger climes》的編輯。他曾為《Writing in Practice, New Writing, TEXT, Axon, English Review, Revenant》和《Gothic Nature》撰寫文章。他曾擔任BBC 4的《The Secret Life of Books》學術顧問，並且是BBC Radio 3的《Free Thinking》節目的評論員。他也是氣候小說作家聯盟的成員。

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