Speculative realism and post-nature writing in Rick Bass’s “The Hermit’s Story”.
As a rising contemporary nature writer, Rick Bass shows in his nature imagination some unique features distinct from previous eco-literature, features characterized here as “speculative realism”. A newly emerging school of philosophy which has just come to the fore in the past decade, speculative re...
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