Nature and Narrative

Rhetoric and Design in Contemporary Fiction

By: Markku LehtimÃ¤ki

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Hardcover | 22 May 2025 | Edition Number 1

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The book explores environmental issues in twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction and how those issues are dealt with by specific literary means. It proposes a reciprocal relationship between nature and narrativeâ"the idea according to which nature both informs and inspires artistic creations, while literary designs and rhetoric also shape our ideas and perceptions of the natural environment. It is argued that in order to address design and rhetoric in environmental texts, we need a close analysis of those world-shaping functions of literary narratives that unite ecocritical and narratological interests. The author presents readings of contemporary novels and their varying ways of seeing nature through narrative devices and fictional minds. The novels discussed in the book are Hilary Mantelâs Wolf Hall, Toni Morrisonâs A Mercy, Ian McGuireâs The North Water, Barbara Kingsolverâs The Lacuna, Paul Hardingâs Tinkers and Enon, J. M. Coetzeeâs Elizabeth Costello, Ian McEwanâs Solar, and Jenny Offillâs Weather.

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