How Literature Comes to Matter : : Post-Anthropocentric Approaches to Fiction /

How Literature Comes to Matter : : Post-Anthropocentric Approaches to Fiction / / Martin Karlsson Pedersen, Sten Pultz Moslund, Marlene Karlsson Marcussen.

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Moslund, Sten Pultz,
Marcussen, Marlene Karlsson,
Pedersen, Martin Karlsson,
MitwirkendeR:
Boscagli, Maurizia,
Bøgh Thomsen, Torsten,
Caracciolo, Marco,
Graulund, Rune,
Karlsson Marcussen, Marlene,
Karlsson Pedersen, Martin,
Karlsson Pedersen, Michael,
Morton, Timothy,
Oulanne, Laura,
Pultz Moslund, Sten,
Sellberg, Karin,
Skiveren, Tobias,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:New Materialisms : NEMA
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 4 colour illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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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