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.
Literary Materialisms addresses what has become a fundamental concern in the last decade: how do we today define literary studies as an academic disci...
Far from suggesting that we replace theories of an omnipresent `end of history' with a traditional, single, diachronic timeline, this book encourages the development of such a timeline's rigorous inverse: a synchronic, multi-faceted and multi-temporal history of the contemporary in literature, and thus of contemporary global literatures.
Far from suggesting that we replace theories of an omnipresent `end of history' with a traditional, single, diachronic timeline, this book encourages ...
