Abstract
ABSTRACTThis essay develops a definition of a type of “narratorhood” specific to the Anthropocene. The concept of the strange stranger is adapted from Timothy Morton into narratological terms through an ecocritical perspective on unnatural narratology and the reading experience, arguing for an ethic of de-anthropomorphized reading that resists the interpretation of narrators as humanoids. Through analyses of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road and Richard McGuire’s graphic novel Here, this ethic is described as the encounter with a narrator-figure that is dialogic, radically indeterminate, and that foregrounds spatial juxtaposition and description over linear time and discourse representation.
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