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- Title
“Man is the Story-Telling Animal”: Graham Swift’s Waterland, Ecocriticism and Narratology.
- Authors
Bracke, Astrid
- Abstract
A narratology-inflected ecocritical analysis of Graham Swift's 1983 novel "Waterland" is presented. It illustrates the role of storytelling in the depiction of the nonhuman natural environment in the novel by discussing how the framework narrative and the fairy tale genre provide an environmental layer to the work. It describes scholars' explorations of the intersections of ecocriticism and narratology, as well as questions that can be devised related to the narratological-ecocritical approach.
- Subjects
WATERLAND (Book); SWIFT, Graham, 1949-; NARRATOLOGY; ECOCRITICISM; STORYTELLING; FAIRY tales; ENGLISH fiction -- History &; criticism
- Publication
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment, 2018, Vol 25, Issue 2, p220
- ISSN
1076-0962
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/isle/isy029