From Post-War to Early Anthropocene: Literary History from the Perspective of the Future.

This article asks what happens to literary history if we replace familiar categories such as post-war and secondo Novecento with emergent concepts derived from the Anthropocene debate. I use the term self-conscious Anthropocene to refer to the period since approximately 2000, when the Anthropocene c...

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Publicado en:Italian Studies Vol. 80; no. 1; pp. 89 - 103
Autor principal: Mussgnug, Florian
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb2025
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