Anthropocene, literature, and econarratology: An interview with Marco Caracciolo

Abstract Marco Caracciolo is Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium, where he led the ERC Starting Grant project “Narrating Mesh.” (2017–2022). His work explores phenomenology narrative, or structure experiences afforded by literary fiction other narrative media. He author several books including most recently Slow Narrative Nonhuman Materialities (2022) Contemporary Fiction Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures (2022). In September 2021, Dr. Wang Hongri interviewed on Anthropocene literature econarratology via e-mail. this interview, sheds light use such concepts as Anthropocene, climate crisis change studies. Further, elaborates tardiness narratological interests environmental issues narrative’s formal affordance to address condition. After commenting relationship between New Formalism contextualist vein contemporary theory, identifies four future directions for study econarratology.