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Literary Materialisms

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Reading and Interpretation

  3. The Ontology and Function of Literature

  4. Form and Genre

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About this book

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.

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"Materialism has always been philosophically problematic, and it never completely coincided with that equally problematic mode called realism. Today, however, it is not only the literary text which can be interrogated for its materialist practice, but also literary criticism and theory itself Few recent collections have been so stimulating in the multiple ways in which they develop these problems and extend their possibilities in all kinds of new dimensions. I have personally found it intellectually productive to return again and again to these essays." - Fredric Jameson, William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University, USA

Editors and Affiliations

  • St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Mathias Nilges

  • University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

    Emilio Sauri

About the editors

Mathias Nilges, St. Francis Xavier University, Cananda Emilio Sauri, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University, Canada Kevin Floyd, Kent State University, USA Peter Hitchcock, City University of New York, USA Nicholas Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Roberto Schwarz, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Bruno Bosteels, Cornell University, USA Jason Potts, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Leerom Medovoi, Portland State University, USA Imre Szeman, University of Alberta, Canada Neil Larsen, University of California, Davis, USA Carolyn Lesjak, Simon Fraser University, Canada Phillip E. Wegner, University of Florida, USA

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