Ekonarratologia. Formy formujące formy we współczesnej teorii narracji
Econarratology: Forms Forming Forms in Contemporary Narrative Theory

Summary/Abstract: The article reflects on econarratology, which integrates postclassical narratology with theories from the environmental humanities. This heterogeneous and still emerging subdiscipline is examined in the context of the material turn. The author reconstructs proposals for understanding storied matter formulated by theorists of posthumanism, ecocriticism, and new materialism. Nonhuman agency entails reconfiguring matter and discourse, including the analysis of the materiality of narrative practices. The evolution and assumptions of non-anthropocentric narrative theory are presented against a background of its divergence from the anthropocentric bias of narrative and the antimimetic project of unnatural narratology. The challenge of econarratology is to articulate a new concept of form adapted to the Anthropocene epoch and a relational analysis based on textual and extratextual interdependencies.

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