Literature and materialisms
This book investigates the relations between literature - from Marquis de Sade to objectivist poetry - and materialism and analyses the material aspects of literature, its structure and texture, its commodification and its capacity to resist market imperatives. It explores how literary style might be understood as a mediation between the 'immaterial' and the concrete features of a text
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This book investigates the relations between literature - from Marquis de Sade to objectivist poetry - and materialism and analyses the material aspects of literature, its structure and texture, its commodification and its capacity to resist market imperatives. It explores how literary style might be understood as a mediation between the 'immaterial' and the concrete features of a text
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- Publication Date:2020
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020
The Physical Object
- Description:188 sider
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781138675704, 1138675709
- oclc:on1159428771
Table of Contents
Indhold: Introduction: The disconcerting materiality of literature ; Materialism and belief: on religion and politics ; Materialism and economics: on Marxism, ideology, and culture ; Materialism and subject: on anti-colonialism, postcolonialism, and feminism ; Materialism and life: on new materialism and vitalism ; Materialism and ontology: on empiricism, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology ; Materialism and realism: on literary realism, naturalism, and objectivist poetry ; Materialism and matter: on physics and quantum physics ; Materialism and language: on linguistics and literary creation ; Conclusion: ghost materialism
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