![]() The Echo Maker’s narrative complexity uncovers the obverse of wonder-projection and paranoia-and demonstrates how affect can derail ethical energies. ![]() ![]() The novel presents the oscillation between familiarity and strangeness as the mechanism of wonder, both in the brain and in narrative, and performs wonder by taking readers through a series of dialectics that aim to defamiliarize the everyday. However, it also rethinks the trajectories of wonder under the pressures of neurological injury. In line with much environmental writing, the novel aspires to increase readers’ awareness of their surroundings as a way to promote ecological protection. The essay focuses on wonder, an essential affect for promoting environmental investment and scientific interest. Houser’s essay argues for the centrality of sickness and affect to twenty-first-century environmental consciousness and therefore to ecocriticism, through an analysis of Richard Powers’s novel, The Echo Maker.
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