Publication details
Uchopení neuchopitelného? Reprezentace hyperobjektů v současné literatuře
| Title in English | Grasping the elusive? Representations of Hyperobjects in today's Literature |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Timothy Morton proposed the term hyperobject for entities so massively distributed in time and space that they defy comprehension, such as environmental crises. At the same time, they disrupt the imaginary boundary between nature and culture, subject and environment. This paper will focus on literary representations of the hyperobject of environmental crisis through the hybridization of man and nature in selected literary works and will try to answer the following questions: is the subject more approximated to the environment or vice versa; is it more a widening of perspective and decentralization of man or an anthropomorphization of nature? And what are the cognitive advantages and limits of these practices with regard to the transfer of the reader's experience to life in times of environmental crisis. |