RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Georgic echoes in "The Long Dry" and "The Dig" by Cynan Jones A1 Monaco, Angelo K1 Cynan Jones K1 Eco-georgic K1 Narrative form K1 Human K1 Non-human K1 Eco-geórgico K1 Forma narrativa K1 Humano K1 No-humano K1 Literatura K1 Literature K1 Medio ambiente K1 Environmental science AB From his debut novel, “The Long Dry” (2006), to his most recent, “Stillicide” (2019), the non-human has played a prominent role in Cynan Jones’ fiction. Of Jones’ texts, “The Long Dry” and “The Dig” (2014) specifically engage with cultivation, farming, and raising livestock in a Welsh rustic setting. Both novels present a rural world that resists idealised forms of representing nature as some kind of idyll, thus calling into question the separation between human and non-human. Starting from this premise, my working hypothesis is that the relationship between human and non-human constitutes a relevant trope in Jones’ fiction since they are both caught in the very same moment of crisis, change and transformation. To this end, I would like to read “The Long Dry” and “The Dig” through Timothy Morton’s idea of the mesh that connects human to non-human. Firstly, I will discuss the generic features of the novels, such as shifting focalisation and temporal disorientation which can be said to favour an encounter between storytelling and material reality. Secondly, I will address Jones’ interest in the erosion of the border between human and non-human, illustrating the affective bonds and sensory ties that connect both dimensions. Taken together, Jones’ novels entail a deep eco-georgic stance in that rural life is recast in terms of a thematic and material space that brings together human and non-human, conflating change and crisis, failure and success. PB Universidad de Alcalá SN 2171-9594 YR 2021 FD 2021 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/49937 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/49937 LA eng DS MINDS@UW RD 28-mar-2024