New Ecological Realisms: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory

Monika Kaup pairs post—apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, José Saramago, Octavia Butler and Cormac McCarthy with new realist theories from Bruno Latour, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Markus Gabriel, Jean—Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis. She shows that, just as new realist theory can illuminate post—apocalyptic literature, post—apocalyptic literature can illuminate new theories of the real. Kaup showcases a context—based concept of the real. She argues that new realisms of complex ...