Abstract This article presents an original methodology of world literature that draws upon ecocritical thought to rescale and recenter literary networks. Working particularly to unsettle the center-periphery model of world systems theory, an ecocritical study of world literature turns to more-than-human scales and forces. It asks that we take our cues from world-shattering or world-shaping ecological events and work outward to track how these events influence cultural and literary life across national, regional, imperial, and even planetary boundaries. After proposing assemblage as a primary technique for conducting an event-based literary study, the article demonstrates this methodology in a culminating analysis of literary representations, through various genres and forms, of the 1883 Krakatoa volcanic eruption.

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重心外围：一种基于事件的世界文学生态批评方法论

摘要 本文提出了一种原创的世界文学方法论，它利用生态批判思想来重新调整和更新文学网络。特别是为了打破世界体系理论的中心-边缘模型，对世界文学的生态批判研究转向了超越人类的尺度和力量。它要求我们从震惊世界或塑造世界的生态事件中汲取线索，并向外追踪这些事件如何影响跨越国家、地区、帝国甚至行星边界的文化和文学生活。在提议将组合作为进行基于事件的文学研究的主要技术之后，本文通过对 1883 年喀拉喀托火山喷发的各种体裁和形式的文学表现进行了最终分析，展示了这种方法论。