Narrating the Mesh: Ecology and the Non-Human in Contemporary Fiction and Oral Storytelling

Project Information

NARMESH

Grant agreement ID: 714166

DOI

10.3030/714166

Project closed

EC signature date 12 January 2017

Start date 1 February 2017

End date 31 July 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 130 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 130 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Belgium

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Publications

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Bodies of knowledge : experimenting with science and affect in contemporary literature

Author(s): Shannon Lambert
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Ghent University

Weird fiction in a warming world : a reading strategy for the Anthropocene

Author(s): Gry Ulstein
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Ghent University

Peer reviewed articles (22)

'Agents of description' : animals, affect, and care in Thalia Field’s Experimental Animals: A Reality Fiction (2016)

Author(s): Shannon Lambert
Published in: Relations, 2020, ISSN 2280-9643
Publisher: LED Edizioni Universitarie

From the museum of civilisation to The Octopus Museum: curating the anthropocene in contemporary literature

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: Textual Practice, 2022, ISSN 0950-236X
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2021.1900378

Phenomenology of Everyday Climate: An Ethnographic Approach to Metaphor, Affect, and the Nonhuman

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo, Susannah Crockford, Shannon Lambert, Gry Ulstein
Published in: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2021, ISSN 1076-0962
Publisher: The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
DOI: 10.1093/isle/isab006

Child minds at the end of the world

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: Environmental Humanities, 2022, ISSN 2201-1919
Publisher: Duke University Press
DOI: 10.1215/22011919-9481484

Being Moved by Nature in the Anthropocene: On the Limits of the Ecological Sublime

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: Emotion Review, 2021, ISSN 1754-0739
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/17540739211040079

Ontological instability and the place of the subject in contemporary fiction

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: Style, 2021, ISSN 0039-4238
Publisher: University of Arkansas

We-Narrative and the Challenges of Nonhuman Collectives

Author(s): Caracciolo
Published in: Style, Issue 54/1, 2020, Page(s) 86, ISSN 0039-4238
Publisher: University of Arkansas
DOI: 10.5325/style.54.1.0086

Emplotment beyond the human scale : on deep time and narrative nonlinearity

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: Poetics Today, 2021, ISSN 0333-5372
Publisher: Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics

Storytalk and complex constructions of nonhuman agency: An interview-based investigation

Author(s): Heidi Toivonen, Marco Caracciolo
Published in: Narrative Inquiry, 2022, ISSN 1387-6740
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1075/ni.21062.toi

The weird and the meta in Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo, Gry Ulstein
Published in: Configurations, 2022, ISSN 1063-1801
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Negative Strategies and World Disruption in Postapocalyptic Fiction

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: Style, Issue 52 no. 3, 2018, Page(s) 222-241, ISSN 0039-4238
Publisher: University of Arkansas

A Walk Through Deep History: Narrative, Embodied Strategies, and Human Evolution

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: Costellazioni, Issue 5, 2018, Page(s) 123-146, ISSN 2532-2001
Publisher: Pagine

Notes for an Econarratological Theory of Character

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: Frontiers of Narrative Studies, Issue 4 no. 1, 2018, Page(s) 172–189, ISSN 2509-4882
Publisher: De Gruyter

“SUBVERSIVE SOMATOLOGY”: EMBODIED COMMUNICATION IN THE EARLY MODERN STAG HUNT

Author(s): Shannon Lambert
Published in: Public, Issue 30/59, 2019, Page(s) 78-87, ISSN 0845-4450
Publisher: Intellect
DOI: 10.1386/public.30.59.78_1

What's Weird about Giant Flying Bears?

Author(s): Gry Ulstein
Published in: Collateral, Issue 15, 2019, ISSN 2506-7982
Publisher: PXL-MAD School of Arts

Form, Science, and Narrative in the Anthropocene

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: Narrative, Issue 27 no. 3, 2019, Page(s) 270-289, ISSN 1063-3685
Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Narrative Bodies and Nonhuman Transformations

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo, Shannon Lambert
Published in: SubStance, Issue 48 no. 3, 2019, Page(s) 45-63, ISSN 1527-2095
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Deus Ex Algorithmo: Narrative Form, Computation, and the Fate of the World in David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten and Richard Powers’s The Overstory

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: Contemporary Literature, Issue 60 no. 1, 2019, Page(s) 47-71, ISSN 0010-7484
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Strange birds and uncertain futures in Anthropocene fiction

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: Green Letters, Issue 24/2, 2020, Page(s) 125-139, ISSN 1468-8417
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2020.1771608

Climate change and the ironies of omniscience in Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: Anglia, 2022, ISSN 1865-8938
Publisher: De Gruyter

Negotiating stories in the Anthropocene : the case of Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: DIEGESIS, Issue 9 no. 2, 2021, Page(s) 16-33, ISSN 2195-2116
Publisher: Bergische Universität Wuppertal

Ocean Thinking

Author(s): Susannah Crockford
Published in: Environment and Society, Issue 11/1, 2020, Page(s) 64-81, ISSN 2150-6779
Publisher: Berghahn
DOI: 10.3167/ares.2020.110105

Monographic books (4)

Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: 2021
Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: 2022
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Narrating Nonhuman Spaces: Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo, Marlene Karlsson Marcussen, David Rodriguez
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Routledge

Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Book chapters (2)

'Through the eyes of Area X' : (Dis)locating ecological hope via new Weird spatiality

Author(s): Gry Ulstein
Published in: Spaces and fictions of the weird and the fantastic : ecologies, geographies, oddities, 2019
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Object-Oriented Plotting and Nonhuman Realities in DeLillo’s Underworld and Iñárritu’s Babel

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology, 2020, Page(s) 45-64
Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Metaphorical patterns in Anthropocene fiction

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo, Andrei Ionescu, Ruben Fransoo
Published in: Language and Literature, Issue 28 (3), 2019, Page(s) 096394701986545, ISSN 0963-9470
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0963947019865450

Other (1)

Animal mayhem games and nonhuman-oriented thinking

Author(s): Marco Caracciolo
Published in: Game Studies, Issue 16047982, 2021, ISSN 1604-7982
Publisher: Game Studies