How literature comes to matter : post-anthropocentric approaches to fiction /

An interdisciplinary encounter between new materialist and object-oriented studies and literary criticism. Provides an overview of central postanthropocentric concerns and key concepts within New Materialism and object-oriented ontology. Illustrates how the material turn and post-anthropocentric the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Moslund, Sten Pultz (Editor ), Marcussen, Marlene Karlsson (Editor ), Pedersen, Martin Karlsson (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
Colección:New materialisms (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Temas:
Fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Materialism in literature.
Roman > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Matérialisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Feminist.
Materialism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • I. Matter-Oriented Perspectives on Literary Techniques, Language and Representation
  • 1. The Abundance of Things in the Midst of Writing: A Post-Anthropocentric View on Description and Georges Perec's 'Still Life/Style Leaf'
  • 2. Slow Narrative and the Perception of Material Forms
  • II. Object Intrusions in Subject-Centric Texts
  • 3. Aisthetic Realities in Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born: A Matter-Oriented Reading of Postcolonial Literature
  • 4. Sylvia Plath's 'Tulips': On the Hostile Nature of Things
  • 5. 'We have nothing to be arrogant about'
  • Hans Christian Andersen and Anti-Anthropocentrism
  • III. Carnal Realities: Lively Flesh in Feminist and Queer Readings
  • 6. Feminist New Materialism and Literary Studies: Methodological Meditations on the Tradition of Feminist Literary Criticism and (Post)Critique
  • 7. Djuna Barnes and Queer Interiorities
  • 8. Corporeal Creativity and Queer Gaps in Time
  • IV. Capitalism, Crisis and the Anthropocene
  • 9. Putting the Earth to Use: Reading Resources in the End Times (Through Science Fiction)
  • 10. Dry Ontology and Finance Capitalism: A Material-Affective Reading of Financial Crisis Fiction
  • 11. The Work of Art in the Age of Capitalist Realism: Materiality/Aura/Apocalypse
  • Afterword: Woodenness
  • The (Palm) Heart of the Matter
  • Index

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