Overview
Provides a short history of plastic and plasticity
Addresses translation studies, object life, and ecocriticism
Introduces a theory of literary plasticity
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On Literary Plasticity: Readings with Kafka in Ecology, Voice, and Object-Life calls to Franz Kafka, and in particular ‘Die Sorge des Hausvaters’, for aid in charting the long reach of plastic on the human mind and world. In this book, Heather H. Yeung builds a past and future ecology of plastic, arguing that it is through a deep reading of literature that we can begin to understand more clearly what it is that plastic means to us today, asking, under the auspices of the idea of literary plasticity: what are the true depths of our twenty-first-century fascination with plastic? How did we become so entangled? How can we come to a better understanding of plastic’s role in our imagination, our environment, and our lives? What can literature teach us in this respect? Why should we care?
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—Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USA
“The experience of reading this short monograph is discovering a plastic oikos that is fervent, fierce, and fecund. Drop in Kafka, plastic imagination, entanglement, the non-linearity of thinking, and the teeming possibilities emerging from a plastic milieu, the space sets up an enthralling journey in literary plasticity. The plastic hauntings are deep and pervasive.”
—Ranjan Ghosh, University of North Bengal, India, and co-author (with J. Hillis Miller) of Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) and author of The Plastic Turn (forthcoming)Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Heather H. Yeung is Lecturer in English and Creative Writing in the School of Humanities, University of Dundee, UK. She is also the author of Spatial Engagement with Poetry (Palgrave 2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: On Literary Plasticity
Book Subtitle: Readings with Kafka in Ecology, Voice, and Object-Life
Authors: Heather H. Yeung
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44158-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44157-9Published: 16 May 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44158-6Published: 15 May 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 111
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Literature and Technology/Media, Environmental Communication, Climate Change