Maria Laakso
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria Laakso plays a role.
Article
2019 The paradox of imagining the post-human world: Fictional and factual rhetorical strategies in Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us Real Fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling, Browse, Sam, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara (eds.), pp. 371–390 | Article
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, works depicting a post-human world have become a popular non-fiction genre. This kind of disanthropy is an extreme form of apocalyptic thinking. In this article, I examine one such disanthropic narrative, Alan Weisman’s bestselling non-fiction… read more