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An interdisciplinary encounter between new materialist and object-oriented studies and literary criticism. 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. Focusing on how the study of literature is an underdeveloped field within 'the material turn', the introduction and each of the eleven chapters examine ways in which new materialist and object-oriented theory opens the study of literature in new ways just as they demonstrate the deep entanglements in literature of human and nonhuman realities. The collection includes an Afterword by Timothy Morton and hands-on analyses and close readings of individual works by such diverse writers as Hans Christian Andersen, Djuna Barnes, Sylvia Plath, Georges Perec, Ayi Kwei Armah, Jeanette Winterson and Paolo Bacigalupi.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
I. Introduction
II. 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 Marlene Karlsson Marcussen
2. Slow Narrative and the Perception of Material FormsMarco Caracciolo
III. 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 LiteratureSten Pultz Moslund
4. Sylvia Plath's 'Tulips': On the Hostile Nature of ThingsMichael Karlsson Pedersen
5. 'We have nothing to be arrogant about' - Hans Christian Andersen and Anti-AnthropocentrismTorsten Bøgh Thomsen
IV. 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)CritiqueTobias Skiveren
7. Djuna Barnes and Queer InterioritiesLaura Oulanne
8. Corporeal Creativity and Queer Gaps in TimeKarin Sellberg
V. Capitalism, Crisis and the Anthropocene
9. Putting the Earth to Use: Reading Resources in the End Times (Through Science Fiction) Rune Graulund
10. Dry Ontology and Finance Capitalism: An Affective-Material Reading of Financial Crisis Fiction Martin Karlsson Pedersen
11. The New Work of Art in the Age of Capitalist Realism: Materiality/ Aura/ ApocalypseMaurizia Boscagli
VI. Afterword
12. Woodenness: The (Palm) Heart of The MatterTimothy Morton
Notes on Contributors
Index.
