Literature and Materialisms sheds light on the current new wave of materialisms and assesses the impact on literary theory and criticism. It maps the similarities and differences between speculative realism, object-oriented philosophy, and vitalism. A genealogy of materialisms, vitalisms, empiricism...

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1. Verfasser:	Neyrat, Frédéric 1968- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Routledge 2020
Schriftenreihe:	Literature and contemporary thought Literature and contemporary thought
Schlagworte:	Materialism in literature Literature / Philosophy Literature / History and criticism / Theory, etc Literature and society Materialism / History
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Zusammenfassung:	Literature and Materialisms sheds light on the current new wave of materialisms and assesses the impact on literary theory and criticism. It maps the similarities and differences between speculative realism, object-oriented philosophy, and vitalism. A genealogy of materialisms, vitalisms, empiricisms, and realist approaches - from Heraclitus to Badiou, including Lucretius, Spinoza, Marx, Althusser, Barad, Spivak, Deleuze, Bennett, Harman, and other contemporary thinkers - puts these new trends into perspective. 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. This volume provides students and academics with an accessible overview of the study of literature and materialism
Beschreibung:	Description based on print version record
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (188 pages)
ISBN:	9781317198468 1317198468 9781315560502 131556050X 9781317198451 131719845X 9781317198444 1317198441