{"product_id":"milieu-a-creaturely-theory-of-the-contemporary-novel-hardback-9781503641761","title":"Milieu; A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel (Hardback) 9781503641761","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMilieu\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElisha Jane Cohn (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503641761\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e290 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.574 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Cohn writes with clarity and force. Raising timely questions about interspecies relationships in an era of climate crisis, \u003ci\u003eMilieu\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh and compelling theorization of the contemporary animal novel.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Emily Steinlight, University of Pennsylvania \"\u003ci\u003eMilieu\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential contribution to debates about what literature can do in response to the current ecological crisis. With unflinching rigor, Cohn offers the milieu as an indispensable concept for theorizing contemporary global fiction.\" \u003cbr\u003e  —Antoine Traisnel, University of Michigan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this creaturely theory of the novel, Elisha Cohn rethinks the status of animals in recent global fiction, arguing that literary representation of animals should matter to any reader invested in the novel as a form, and showing how literary style makes knowable our imperiled multispecies worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCohn argues that the animal lives of contemporary fiction move beyond allegories of globalization's fracture of subjectivity by emphasizing the creaturely dimensions of narrative. This shift in focus registers through recent fiction's fascination with milieus: environments made perceptible through sentience that humans share with other creatures. Showing how theories of milieu—from Jacob von Uexküll, George Canguilhem, and Sylvia Wynter to recent studies in comparative cognition—converge with and are conceptually indebted to Indigenous and Black ontologies, Cohn argues that the milieu not only explains the centrality of animals to contemporary fiction, but also promotes dialogue across disciplines invested in anti-hierarchic accounts of embodied life. Each chapter foregrounds formal resonances in texts from the mid-1990s through the present, including work by Téa Obreht, Yoko Tawada, NoViolet Bulawayo, Sigrid Nunez, Jesmyn Ward, Linda Hogan, Lucy Ellmann, Amitav Ghosh, and Aminatta Forna. Throughout, Cohn compellingly argues for the centrality of narrative voice in avoiding, deferring, or complicating modes of figuration and critical interpretation that confirm human privilege.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. Breaking the Zoo\u003cbr\u003e  2. Speaking Otherwise\u003cbr\u003e  3. Dog Friends\u003cbr\u003e  4. Cat Kin\u003cbr\u003e  5. Wilder Things\u003cbr\u003e  Coda\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610723152152,"sku":"9781503641761","price":82.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/milieu-a-creaturely-theory-of-the-contemporary-novel-hardback-9781503641761","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}