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Writing the longue durée: Foundational Fictions and the Anthropocene

  • Jörg Dünne (author)

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TitleWriting the longue durée
SubtitleFoundational Fictions and the Anthropocene
ContributorJörg Dünne (author)
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
CopyrightJörg Dünne
Publishermeson press
Published on2021-03-15
Long abstractFrom the discovery of geologic “deep time,” nineteenth-century literary imaginations of modernity articulated connections between the long timescale of the Earth’s history and the history of the present. Some elements of Argentina’s geologic history that have played a decisive role in the development of paleontology have been used by authors as varied as Honoré de Balzac and Florentino Ameghino as the imaginary foundation of present civilizations or nations in deep time. Unlike such appropriations of the deep past, contemporary literature no longer uses geologic time in order to anchor the present in the past, but instead to question the foundational character of geologic dynamics at the threshold of the new epoch called the “Anthropocene.”
Page rangepp. 75–96
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Jörg Dünne

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Professor of Romance Literatures at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Jörg Dünne is Professor of Romance Literatures at Humboldt University of Berlin. His fields of study are literatures in Spanish and French since early modernity, and his particular research interests include literature and cartography, catastrophism, and imaginations of deep time.