How literature comes to matter : post-anthropocentric approaches to fiction / edited by Sten Pultz Moslund, Marlene Karlsson Marcussen and Martin Karlsson Pedersen.

An interdisciplinary encounter between new materialist and object-oriented studies and literary criticism. Provides an overview of central postanthropocentric concerns and key concepts within New Materialism and object-oriented ontology. Illustrates how the material turn and post-anthropocentric theory open new sides to the study of literature, including feminist, queer, postcolonial and anthropocene studies of literature. Includes hands-on suggestions of how to approach the significance of non-human materialities in literary depictions of the world. Through a rethinking of the relationship between the subject and object, the human and the nonhuman, this volume shows how literature and post-anthropocentric theory can illuminate each other in mutually productive ways. Focusing on how the study of literature is an underdeveloped field within 'the material turn', the introduction and each of the eleven chapters examine ways in which new materialist and object-oriented theory opens the study of literature in new ways just as they demonstrate the deep entanglements in literature of human and nonhuman realities. The collection includes an Afterword by Timothy Morton and hands-on analyses and close readings of individual works by such diverse writers as Hans Christian Andersen, Djuna Barnes, Sylvia Plath, Georges Perec, Ayi Kwei Armah, Jeanette Winterson and Paolo Bacigalupi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- I. Matter-Oriented Perspectives on Literary Techniques, Language and Representation -- 1. The Abundance of Things in the Midst of Writing: A Post-Anthropocentric View on Description and Georges Perec's 'Still Life/Style Leaf' -- 2. Slow Narrative and the Perception of Material Forms -- II. Object Intrusions in Subject-Centric Texts -- 3. Aisthetic Realities in Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born: A Matter-Oriented Reading of Postcolonial Literature

4. Sylvia Plath's 'Tulips': On the Hostile Nature of Things -- 5. 'We have nothing to be arrogant about' -- Hans Christian Andersen and Anti-Anthropocentrism -- III. Carnal Realities: Lively Flesh in Feminist and Queer Readings -- 6. Feminist New Materialism and Literary Studies: Methodological Meditations on the Tradition of Feminist Literary Criticism and (Post)Critique -- 7. Djuna Barnes and Queer Interiorities -- 8. Corporeal Creativity and Queer Gaps in Time -- IV. Capitalism, Crisis and the Anthropocene

9. Putting the Earth to Use: Reading Resources in the End Times (Through Science Fiction) -- 10. Dry Ontology and Finance Capitalism: A Material-Affective Reading of Financial Crisis Fiction -- 11. The Work of Art in the Age of Capitalist Realism: Materiality/Aura/Apocalypse -- Afterword: Woodenness -- The (Palm) Heart of the Matter -- Index

Through a rethinking of the relationship between the subject and object, the human and the nonhuman, this volume shows how literature and post-anthropocentric theory can illuminate each other in mutually productive ways.

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