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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.

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Author:   Sten Pultz Moslund (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature & English Studies, University of Southern Denmark) ,  Marlene Karlsson Marcussen (Assistant Lecturer in Comparative Literature, University of Southern Denmark) ,  Martin Karlsson Pedersen (Assistant Lecturer in Comparative Literature_x000D_, University of Southern Denmark. _x000D_)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9781474461313

ISBN 10:   147446131
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   15 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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.

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[How Literature Comes to Matter] is an exciting and often path-breaking look at how literature might contribute to contemporary reflections on the entangled relations between humans and more-than-human material realities. Far from being inert and dead, matter – in all its attendant complexity and glory –turns out to be teeming and writhing with life. In the final analysis, matter matters, perhaps much more than the human. -- Vedant Srinivas * Journal of Posthumanism *

[How Literature Comes to Matter] is an exciting and often path-breaking look at how literature might contribute to contemporary reflections on the entangled relations between humans and more-than-human material realities. Far from being inert and dead, matter - in all its attendant complexity and glory -turns out to be teeming and writhing with life. In the final analysis, matter matters, perhaps much more than the human.--Vedant Srinivas ""Journal of Posthumanism""

"[How Literature Comes to Matter] is an exciting and often path-breaking look at how literature might contribute to contemporary reflections on the entangled relations between humans and more-than-human material realities. Far from being inert and dead, matter - in all its attendant complexity and glory -turns out to be teeming and writhing with life. In the final analysis, matter matters, perhaps much more than the human.--Vedant Srinivas ""Journal of Posthumanism"""

Author Information

Sten Pultz Moslund is Associate Profess of Comparative Literature & English Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. He is co-author of The Postmigrant Condition: New Perspectives on Migration, Multiculturalism and the Arts (Routledge, 2018). He is author of Literature’s Sensuous Geographies: Place Matters in Postcolonial Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Migration Literature and Hybridity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Making Use of History in New South African Fiction (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003). He is co-editor of The Culture of Migration: Politics, Aesthetics and Histories (IB Tauris, 2015). Marlene Marcussen is Assistant Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark. She is the author of a number of articles in Danish journals. Martin Karlsson Pederson is Assistant Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark.

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