Marco Caracciolo is an associate professor of English and literary theory at Ghent University in Belgium. He is the author of Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction: Explorations in Readers’ Engagement with Characters (Nebraska, 2016) and Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene.

"Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities makes a convincing appeal for the potential of slow narrative in regard to the ecological imagination that is needed to (en)counter the contemporary ecological crises. With his multifaceted and innovative work, Caracciolo adds to reconceptualizations of the study of narrative in the environmental humanities."-Dorothea Sawon, KULT-online “Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities makes an important contribution to the linked fields of ecocriticism, contemporary cultural works, narratology, and new materialisms. . . . To make his case Caracciolo lays out the debates in these fields with sometimes startling clarity. He has a wonderful knack for the economic distillation of complex arguments-and his book exhibits a wide and deft knowledge of the fields he addresses.”-Barbara Leckie, author of Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Decelerating Story1. Immersion for Slow Audiences2. The Pace and Place of Qualia3. Ontocatalogs and Nonhuman Materiality4. Narrative, Philosophy, and Essayistic Attractions5. Textural Patterns in Multimodal Narrative6. Visual Narrative and the Narramorphism of Matter7. Radical Environmental Storytelling in Video GamesCoda: Slow RetreatNotesReferencesIndex

Marco Caracciolo is an associate professor of English and literary theory at Ghent University in Belgium. He is the author of Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction: Explorations in Readers’ Engagement with Characters (Nebraska, 2016) and Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene.

"Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities makes a convincing appeal for the potential of slow narrative in regard to the ecological imagination that is needed to (en)counter the contemporary ecological crises. With his multifaceted and innovative work, Caracciolo adds to reconceptualizations of the study of narrative in the environmental humanities."-Dorothea Sawon, KULT-online “Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities makes an important contribution to the linked fields of ecocriticism, contemporary cultural works, narratology, and new materialisms. . . . To make his case Caracciolo lays out the debates in these fields with sometimes startling clarity. He has a wonderful knack for the economic distillation of complex arguments-and his book exhibits a wide and deft knowledge of the fields he addresses.”-Barbara Leckie, author of Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Decelerating Story1. Immersion for Slow Audiences2. The Pace and Place of Qualia3. Ontocatalogs and Nonhuman Materiality4. Narrative, Philosophy, and Essayistic Attractions5. Textural Patterns in Multimodal Narrative6. Visual Narrative and the Narramorphism of Matter7. Radical Environmental Storytelling in Video GamesCoda: Slow RetreatNotesReferencesIndex

Marco Caracciolo is an associate professor of English and literary theory at Ghent University in Belgium. He is the author of Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction: Explorations in Readers’ Engagement with Characters (Nebraska, 2016) and Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene.

"Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities makes a convincing appeal for the potential of slow narrative in regard to the ecological imagination that is needed to (en)counter the contemporary ecological crises. With his multifaceted and innovative work, Caracciolo adds to reconceptualizations of the study of narrative in the environmental humanities."-Dorothea Sawon, KULT-online “Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities makes an important contribution to the linked fields of ecocriticism, contemporary cultural works, narratology, and new materialisms. . . . To make his case Caracciolo lays out the debates in these fields with sometimes startling clarity. He has a wonderful knack for the economic distillation of complex arguments-and his book exhibits a wide and deft knowledge of the fields he addresses.”-Barbara Leckie, author of Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Decelerating Story1. Immersion for Slow Audiences2. The Pace and Place of Qualia3. Ontocatalogs and Nonhuman Materiality4. Narrative, Philosophy, and Essayistic Attractions5. Textural Patterns in Multimodal Narrative6. Visual Narrative and the Narramorphism of Matter7. Radical Environmental Storytelling in Video GamesCoda: Slow RetreatNotesReferencesIndex