Essays about: "Elizabeth-Jane Burnett"

Found 1 essay containing the words Elizabeth-Jane Burnett.

  1. 1. Grieving the Ungrievable: Searching for Home through Nonhuman Becoming in Hiromi Itō’s Wild Grass on the Riverbank and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s The Grassling

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Matilda Davidsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Hiromi Itō; Elizabeth-Jane Burnett; Home; Irrealism; Nonhuman agency; climate change; Deleuze;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to examine non-human agency in Elizabeth Jane Burnett’s The Grassling and Hiromi Itō’s Wild Grass on the Riverbank. Using a theoretical framework based on material ecocriticism, queer ecology and affect theory, the thesis explores how Burnett’s and Itō’s poetic narratives reconfigure the relationship between human and nonhuman in non-anthropocentric ways with the help of the irreal. READ MORE