Writing Ecofiction: Navigating the Challenges of Environmental Narrative
暫譯: 撰寫生態小說:應對環境敘事的挑戰

Manwaring, Kevan

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-20
  • 售價: $1,460
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$1,430
  • 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)

這本創意寫作教科書向學生介紹生態小說(ecofiction):專注於環境的敘事寫作。生態小說也被稱為「氣候小說」(climate fiction)或「氣候科幻」(cli-fi),越來越多的短篇小說作家、小說家以及互動小說等新興形式的先驅者正在響應這一號召,發展他們對氣候危機的創意回應。本指南探討了多種文類和寫作方式,並涉及相關的倫理和技術挑戰。它提供了對經典和當代文本的討論、文學批評以及創意寫作練習。這本書涵蓋了廣泛的主題和寫作風格,從與自然和風景寫作相關的作品,到對氣候變遷採取更積極主義的作品。書中對全球南方和被壓迫者的意識進行了探討,挑戰了人類世(Anthropocene)、荒野和自然寫作的框架。每一章都為創意作家提供了對生態小說的新視角,並附有閱讀建議、與其他作家和文本的聯繫以及寫作活動。這本書專為高年級本科生和研究生的環境寫作模組設計,同時也適合希望擴展技能的獨立作家。

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)

凱文·曼瓦林是英國伯恩茅斯藝術大學的創意寫作碩士課程負責人。他是《渴望龍:創造力、想像力與作家的探索》(Desiring Dragons: creativity, imagination, and the writer's quest)的作者,並為《與自然連結的故事講述》(Storytelling for Nature Connection)和《流行歌曲中的海岸環境》(Coastal Environments in Popular Song)貢獻過文章,還編輯了《惡劣天氣:異域的風暴故事》(Heavy Weather: tempestuous tales of stranger climes)。他曾為《實踐中的寫作》(Writing in Practice)、《新寫作》(New Writing)、《TEXT》、《Axon》、《英語評論》(English Review)、《復仇者》(Revenant)和《哥特自然》(Gothic Nature)撰寫文章。他曾擔任BBC 4節目《書籍的秘密生活》(The Secret Life of Books)的學術顧問,並是BBC Radio 3節目《自由思考》(Free Thinking)的專家小組成員。他也是氣候小說作家聯盟的成員。