Diffractive Reading New Matercb

Putting the New Materialist figure of diffraction to use in a set of readings - in which cultural texts are materially read against their contents and their themes, against their readers or against other texts - this volume proposes a criticalintervention into the practice of reading itself.

List of contents

1. Introduction - Kai Merten (Erfurt, Germany)
PART I: Diffractive Reading: Groundwork
2. On the Politics of Diffractive Reading - Birgit M. Kaiser
3. Heraclitus's speculative onto-story: Impossible appointments and the importance of the encounter - Max Walther
4. Decoherent Reading: On the Constitutive Exclusions of Diffractive Reading - Stacey Moran
5. Reading speculative horror readings diffractively - Peter Schuck
PART II: Diffracting Literature: Diffractions of the World-Text-Reader Entanglement
6. Poem, Epic, and Epoch: A Diffractive Reading of William Carlos Williams's Paterson and Georg Lukács's Theory of the Novel in the Age of New Materialism - Brendan Johnston
7. Sauron's Sliding Door: The Diffraction of Mythological and Intimate 'Evil' in Tolkien - Bo Kampmann Walther
8. Sensing I and Eyes in Ali Smith's How to Be Both - Daniela Keller
9. Practices of Entanglement: UnReading the Genre in China Miéville'sThe Scar - Agnieszka Kotwasinska
10. The Entanglements of Harry Burden: A Diff

About the author

Kai Merten is professor of British literary studies at the University of Erfurt. He is the founder of the Erfurt Network on New Materialism (ENNM).

Summary

Putting the New Materialist figure of diffraction to use in a set of readings – in which cultural texts are materially read against their contents and their themes, against their readers or against other texts – this volume proposes a critical intervention into the practice of reading itself.

Product details

• Assisted by: Kai Merten (Editor), Merten Kai (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 18 to 22
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781786613967
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-396-7
• Series: New Critical Humanities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Philosophy: aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism & Post-structuralism