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This collection brings together internationally renowned literary scholars to develop a literary theory for the age of new materialism. It draws on the key concepts of entanglement and speculation i to highlight literature's timeliness and urgency in the Anthropocene.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Diffracting "stabilized/stabilizing binaries" of Contemporary British Climate-Change Theater
Chapter 2: Pastoral Fieldwork: Wordsworth's Labour
Chapter 3: At First Blush: New Materialism and Computational Literary Studies
Chapter 4: Quicksand, Lispector, and the Volatile Matters of Literary Materialism
Chapter 5: Being a/part. Thinking About the Human/Nonhuman Relationship
Chapter 6: Resisting Finitude, or The Romantic Anthropocene
Chapter 7: At War with the Seasons: Wilfred Owen's "Exposure" and "Spring Offensive"
Chapter 8: W.G. Sebald and the Exploded View
Part Three: Aligning Entanglement and Speculation
Chapter 9: Uncertain Materiality in the Neuronovel
Chapter 10: Diffracting Birds and Words in Nicholas Royle's An English Guide to Birdwatching (2017)
Chapter 11: How To Get Outside-Assemblages in Speculative Nature Writing
About the author
Kerstin Howaldt holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Erfurt. 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).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).Kerstin Howaldt holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Erfurt. 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).Arne De Boever teaches American Studies in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. He is the author of Plastic Sovereignties (2016), Finance Fictions (2018) and Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism (2019).
Summary
This collection brings together internationally renowned literary scholars to develop a literary theory for the age of new materialism. It draws on the key concepts of entanglement and speculation i to highlight literature's timeliness and urgency in the Anthropocene.
