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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...
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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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.
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.
