@book{2025:pfeifer:anthropoce, title = {Anthropocene Affordances: Scale, Narrative Form, and the Human in US-American Literature}, year = {2025}, note = {The current historical moment, often referred to as the Anthropocene, is defined by profound human influence on the planetary system. Lena Pfeifer examines how contemporary US-American literature negotiates the political, ethical, and epistemological challenges posed by the Anthropocene. Connecting new formalist approaches with theories of scale, she develops the concept of »Anthropocene affordances« as a new methodological framework for analyzing narrative responses to the recent ecological crisis that reconfigure conventional forms and narrative strategies to critically discuss the role of the human as a geological force.}, edition = {1}, publisher = {transcript}, address = {Bielefeld}, series = {Literary Ecologies}, volume = {9}, author = {Pfeifer, Lena} }