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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Type
Bog
Sprog
engelsk
Emneord
Emnetal
80.1
Beskrivelse
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
ISBN
9781138675704
Omfang
188 sider
Forlag
Routledge
Målgruppe
fagligt niveauvoksenmaterialer