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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moslund, Sten Pultz, Author.

Contributor:

Moslund, Sten Pultz, editor.

Pedersen, Martin Karlsson, editor.

Marcussen, Marlene Karlsson, editor.

Series:

New materialisms (Edinburgh, Scotland)

New materialisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materialism in literature.

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

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Through a rethinking of the relationship between the subject and object, the human and the nonhuman, this volume shows how literature and post-anthropocentric theory can illuminate each other in mutually productive ways.

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

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 10, 2022).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474496179

1474496172

9781474461344

1474461344

OCLC:

1306539787