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It traces literature's long history of repurposing representational language use for performative, 'material' effects. It brings this tradition into dialogue with the recent material turn in literary and cultural theory and proposes a methodology of Interferential Reading with examples ranging from Shakespeare to contemporary media art
List of contents
List of ContributorsPART I: Method Matters1 Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading: How Matter Matters on Page, Stage and Screen
Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Martin Middeke and Christoph Reinfandt2 From Paper to Pulp: A Report from No Man's Land
Tom McCarthy3 In the Blink of an Eye: Sound Matter, Eye-Movement and Poetic Form
Felix Sprang4 Concrete Structures (in) J. G. Ballard's
Concrete Island Kylie CranePART II: Fictional Materialisations5 Moral Matters: Power, Coloniality and Narrative in Hanya Yanagihara's
The People in the Trees Gero Bauer6 Longing for Matter: Nicola Barker's Exploration of Transhuman Existence in
H(A)PPY Ingrid Hotz-Davies7 Invisible Materiality and Suprapersonal Narration in Richard Powers's
The Overstory Christoph Reinfandt8 "The Entirety of the Shape Is Complicit"
-A Diffractive Reading of Colum McCann's
Apeirogon Martin RiedelsheimerPART III: Poetic Materialisations9 Making Embodiment Matter in John Donne's "The Cross" and
Death's Duel Nadine Böhm-Schnitker10 Here, Hair and History: Keats's Poetics of Materiality
David Lo11 Language Matters: Perception and Expression in Herder, Wordsworth and Tennyson
Philipp Erchinger
12 "The Mould Is Blossoming on the Wall": Assemblages of Vibrant Borders in Northern Irish Poems
Jessica BundschuhPART IV: Performing Matter13 Against the "Myth of Non¿Mediation": Displacing the Aura and the Materiality of Live Theatre Broadcasting
Heidi Lucja Liedke14 Theatre as Assemblage: Materiality and/as Texture in Tim Crouch's
Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation Martin Middeke15 Materiality, Affectivity, and the Female Disabled Body in Contemporary Automedial Art
Katrin RöderPART V: Emergent Genres16 Of Broomsticks and Doughnuts: Theorising and Historicising British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essays from 1701 to 2021
Daniel Schneider17 Prose for a More-Than-Human World: John Berger, Kathleen Jamie and the Ends of Genre
Christian Schmitt-Kilb18 The Practice of Colour Writing: Material-Discursive Colourscapes in Han Kang's
The White Book Mascha WielandName Index
Subject Index
About the author
Ingrid Hotz-Davies is a Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Tübingen.
Martin Middeke holds the Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg and is Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Christoph Reinfandt holds the Chair of English Literature at the University of Tübingen.
Summary
It traces literature’s long history of repurposing representational language use for performative, ‘material’ effects. It brings this tradition into dialogue with the recent material turn in literary and cultural theory and proposes a methodology of Interferential Reading with examples ranging from Shakespeare to contemporary media art
