Literary Materialisms

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-46460-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 267 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 4143 g

Literary Materialisms addresses what has become a fundamental concern in the last decade: how do we today define literary studies as an academic discipline and literature as a relevant object of study? Avoiding unproductive proclamations, this volume unites new materialist critical thinking with a commitment to fundamental principles.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sauri, E.

Nilges, M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Materialism and Literature Revisited; Mathias Nilges and Emilio Sauri PART I: READING AND INTERPRETATION 1. Reading Dialectically; Carolyn Lesjak 2. Marxist Criticism, Then and Now; Imre Szeman 3. Literature, Immanent Critique and the Problem of Standpoint; Neil Larsen 4. The Bio-Political Unconscious: Toward an Eco-Marxist Literary Theory; Leerom Medovoi PART II: THE ONTOLOGY AND FUNCTION OF LITERATURE 5. Work as Art and Art as Life; Sarah Brouillette 6. How to Subsume Difference, or World Reduction in Delany; Kevin Floyd 7. Defining the World; Peter Hitchcock 8. Close Reading and the Market; Nicholas Brown PART III: FORM AND GENRE 9. Form(alism's) Now; Mathias Nilges 10. Objective Form: Reflections on the Dialectic of Roguery; Roberto Schwarz 11. Marxism and Melodrama; Bruno Bosteels 12. Creativity, Character and the Making of the American Middle-Class; Jason Potts 13. The Ends of Culture; or, Late Modernism, Redux; Phillip E. Wegner

Über Autor(innen)

Mathias Nilges, St. Francis Xavier University, Cananda

Emilio Sauri, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University, Canada

Kevin Floyd, Kent State University, USA

Peter Hitchcock, City University of New York, USA

Nicholas Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Roberto Schwarz, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

Bruno Bosteels, Cornell University, USA

Jason Potts, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Leerom Medovoi, Portland State University, USA

Imre Szeman, University of Alberta, Canada

Neil Larsen, University of California, Davis, USA

Carolyn Lesjak, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Phillip E. Wegner, University of Florida, USA