Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality / / Marco Caracciolo.
How do physical things differ from non-things—human subjects, animals, abstract ideas, or processes? Those questions, which are as old as philosophy itself, have inspired contemporary debates in ecocriticism, thing theory, and in the interdisciplinary field of new materialism. This book argues that...
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Caracciolo, Marco, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality / Marco Caracciolo. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (IX, 210 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Ecocriticism Unbound , 2940-6692 ; 1 Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Table of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Object-Oriented Plotting -- 3 The Ethics of Materiality in the Multimodal Novel -- 4 Curating the Anthropocene Museum -- 5 The Fetish, the Grotesque, and the Castaway -- 6 Materializing Survival Games -- 7 The Office Weird -- 8 Mind among Material Ruins -- 9 Infrastructure and Collectivity in Video Games -- 10 Epilogue: Embracing the Spectrum -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star How do physical things differ from non-things—human subjects, animals, abstract ideas, or processes? Those questions, which are as old as philosophy itself, have inspired contemporary debates in ecocriticism, thing theory, and in the interdisciplinary field of new materialism. This book argues that contemporary narrative is well placed to map out and work through the spectrum of the material and the philosophical questions that underlie it. This is because narrative does not resolve the tensions at the heart of conceptions of materiality but rather reframes them, envisioning their implications and exploring their relevance to concrete contexts of human interaction. This monograph is structured around a number of novels, experimental fiction, films, and video games that imagine the inherent agency of things but also interrogate the affective and ethical significance of materiality in human terms. Its aim is to demonstrate the power of formal narrative analysis to foster conceptually and ethically sophisticated ways of thinking about thingness in times of ecological crisis—that is, times in which "stuff" can no longer be taken for granted. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024) Affekt. Materialismus. Narratologie. Objekte in der Literatur. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. bisacsh Narratology. New Materialism. affect. objects in literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1 9783111175782 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Cultural and Area Studies 2023 English 9783111319094 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Cultural and Area Studies 2023 9783111318127 EPUB 9783111142739 print 9783111141497 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111142562 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111142562 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111142562/original |
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