Sökning: "Jeff VanderMeer"

Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden Jeff VanderMeer.

1. 1. Facing Anthropocene Threats : Rational Bureaucracy vs. Anthropocene Climate Change in The Southern Reach by Jeff VanderMeer

   Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Författare :Lora Ivanoska; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Anthropocene; Climate Change; Bureaucracy; Rational Bureaucracy; Climate Change Bureaucracy; Jeff Vandermeer; Southern Reach; Annihilation; Authority;

   Sammanfattning : Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach series has been a talking point for many ecocritical papers exploring themes of Anthropocene, uncanny, and hyperobjects. Despite the plethora of themes being investigated concerning climate change in Southern Reach, an important aspect, the climate change bureaucracy of the Southern Reach agency, is glossed over. LÄS MER

3. 2. Vidunderlig mark : En ekokritisk komparativ analys av Junji Itos Uzumaki och Jeff VanderMeers Annihilation

   Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

   Författare :Ellen Andersson; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Junji Ito; Jeff VanderMeer; Ekokritik; Plats;

   Sammanfattning : I den här uppsatsen undersöker jag hur platserna Kurouzu-cho från Junji Itos Uzumaki och Område X från Jeff VanderMeers Annihilation framställs ur ett ekokritiskt perspektiv. Detta genom att titta på växtligheten och naturfenomen, attityder kring platserna, hus och byggnader, samt hur platserna förhåller sig till begreppet agens. LÄS MER

4. 3. “We Did Not Trust Ourselves” : A study of the unreliable narration in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation

   Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Författare :Filip Mattsson; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Annihilation; Jeff VanderMeer; perception; unreliable narrator; science fiction; horror;

   Sammanfattning : Annihilation is the first novel in the trilogy named “The Southern Reach,” a ScienceFiction/Horror series of books written by Jeff VanderMeer. Annihilation focuses on a team of scientists on an expedition into an area where the very nature has been altered in mysterious ways. LÄS MER

5. 4. The Incomprehensible Scale of the Anthropocene: The Relevance of the Sublime in VanderMeer's 'Annihilation' and Anthropocene Fiction

   Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Författare :Leila Francis; [2020]
   Nyckelord :sublime; Annihilation; Jeff VanderMeer; Anthropocene fiction; climate fiction;

   Sammanfattning : This paper examines the relationship between the sublime and the Anthropocene, the period in earth’s geological history characterized by human impact upon the planet. As the genre of Anthropocene fiction, or climate fiction, has emerged in recent years, difficulties in defining the new genre as well as identifying useful tropes and forms within cli-fi novels has given rise to several proposed methods of understanding the Anthropocene. LÄS MER

7. 5. Annihilating the Cartesian Divide : Finding the Inhuman in Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation

   Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Rasmus Rosquist; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Annihilation; Bataille; Colebrook; Descartes; inhuman; natureculture; posthumanism;

   Sammanfattning : As posthumanist discourse attempts reposition the human as one of many subjects in relation to ecologies and other inhuman agencies, doing away with a Cartesian human exceptionalism is one of the key problems. From Haraway’s naturecultures, positing human culture as one of many, to Colebrook’s discussions of inhuman agencies, what ‘the human’ means to us is the heart of this theoretical field. LÄS MER