How literature comes to matter : post-anthropocentric approaches to fiction / edited by Sten Pultz Moslund, Marlene Karlsson Marcussen and Martin Karlsson Pedersen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moslund, Sten Pultz, editor.

Marcussen, Marlene Karlsson, editor.

Pedersen, Martin Karlsson, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

New materialisms (Edinburgh, Scotland)

New Materialisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Fiction.

Materialism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

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

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 10, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Moslund, Sten Pultz. How Literature Comes to Matter.

ISBN:

9781474461344

1474461344

Publisher Number:

40030424837

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