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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Published in:	Italian Studies Vol. 80; no. 1; pp. 89 - 103
Main Author:	Mussgnug, Florian
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb2025
Subjects:	Self-consciousness (Awareness) Literary criticism Anthropocene Epoch Self-consciousness (Sensitivity) Methodology
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost