Chapter 1: Ecocriticism and the Universal Ecosystem
Chapter 2: Biotic World
Chapter 3: A Body in the Universal Ecosystem
Chapter 4: The Astropocene
Chapter 5: Spatiotemporal Nature
Michael J. Gormley is professor of English at Quinsigamond Community College
Ecocritical theorist Gormley declares the end of the Anthropocene,
memorializing it in the title, and heralds its replacement by
another new epoch, the Astropocene…. Drawing on ecocritical
literature and sources in physics and ecology, he argues that
humanity is already inhabiting the Astropocene as evidenced by
repeated forays to the moon and Mars. This text envisions the death
throes of the Anthropocene as it gives way to the Astropocene.
Gormley even imagines humans evolving from Earth-bound into Martian
form, spanning the universal ecosystem. His slim volume, dense in
content and rich in metaphors, comprises five chapters…. If
ecocriticism is a banquet of imaginative depictions and neologisms,
Gormley offers its culminating course for students and scholars of
ecocritical theory and environmental studies to savor. Highly
recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and
faculty. General readers.
*Choice Reviews*
In this visionary book, Michael J. Gormley tracks the
Anthropocene—a daunting task—through swampy terrain. Weaving
physics and ecology into sustained readings of fiction, The End of
the Anthropocene:Ecocriticism, the Universal Ecosystem, and the
Astropocene invites readers into an expansive space-time that
includes and exceeds planet Earth.
*Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans; author of
Searching for the Anthropocene: A Journey into the Environmental
Humanities*
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