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Scaling up the Capitalocene : paratexts, storyworld, and climate change in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140

Hongri Wang (UGent)
(2024) Narrative 2024, Abstracts.
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In response to the ongoing debate over the Anthropocenic temporality and narrative time, econarratology seeks to forge chains between the storyworld and extranarrative contexts. This paper argues that paratexts, acting as a liminal zone that mediates between the inside and the outside of the text, are well-suited to come to terms with the scale effect of climate change by expanding the parameters of the storyworld to scale up narrative time and space and complicating the collectivity of author-text-reader interaction. Using New York 2140 as a case study, this paper illustrates how the interplay between the core text and the paratext can register an omniscient spatio-temporal profile into the novel and create a multi-layered storyworld where capitalocenic worldbuilding is formally replicated and simultaneously deconstructed.

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Wang, Hongri. “Scaling up the Capitalocene : Paratexts, Storyworld, and Climate Change in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140.” Narrative 2024, Abstracts, 2024.
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Wang, H. (2024). Scaling up the Capitalocene : paratexts, storyworld, and climate change in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140. Narrative 2024, Abstracts. Presented at the The 2024 annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (Narrative 2024), Newcastle, UK.
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Wang, Hongri. 2024. “Scaling up the Capitalocene : Paratexts, Storyworld, and Climate Change in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140.” In Narrative 2024, Abstracts.
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Wang, Hongri. 2024. “Scaling up the Capitalocene : Paratexts, Storyworld, and Climate Change in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140.” In Narrative 2024, Abstracts.
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Wang H. Scaling up the Capitalocene : paratexts, storyworld, and climate change in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140. In: Narrative 2024, Abstracts. 2024.
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H. Wang, “Scaling up the Capitalocene : paratexts, storyworld, and climate change in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140,” in Narrative 2024, Abstracts, Newcastle, UK, 2024.
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  location     = {{Newcastle, UK}},
  title        = {{Scaling up the Capitalocene : paratexts, storyworld, and climate change in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140}},
  year         = {{2024}},
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