| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 267 pages) |
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Introduction: Materialism and Literature Revisited; Mathias Nilges and Emilio Sauri -- PART I: READING AND INTERPRETATION -- 1. Reading Dialectically; Carolyn Lesjak -- 2. Marxist Criticism, Then and Now; Imre Szeman -- 3. Literature, Immanent Critique and the Problem of Standpoint; Neil Larsen -- 4. The Bio-Political Unconscious: Toward an Eco-Marxist Literary Theory; Leerom Medovoi -- PART II: THE ONTOLOGY AND FUNCTION OF LITERATURE -- 5. Work as Art and Art as Life; Sarah Brouillette -- 6. How to Subsume Difference, or World Reduction in Delany; Kevin Floyd -- 7. Defining the World; Peter Hitchcock -- 8. Close Reading and the Market; Nicholas Brown -- PART III: FORM AND GENRE -- 9. Form(alism's) Now; Mathias Nilges -- 10. Objective Form: Reflections on the Dialectic of Roguery; Roberto Schwarz -- 11. Marxism and Melodrama; Bruno Bosteels -- 12. Creativity, Character and the Making of the American Middle-Class; Jason Potts -- 13. The Ends of Culture; or, Late Modernism, Redux; Phillip E. Wegner |
| Summary |
How do we today define literary studies as an academic discipline and literature as a relevant, discrete object of study? Beyond arguments that insist upon the continued importance of literature only via its subsumption under the broad category of culture on the one hand and nostalgic, traditionalist oppositions to materialist study of literature aimed to safeguard the autonomy of literature from the social, the economic, and the political on the other, "Literary Materialisms" gathers thirteen essays by established and emerging scholars that trace the medially and disciplinarily specific future of literary studies in an updated and newly historicized attention to materialism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature -- Philosophy.
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Materialism.
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materialism (philosophical movement)
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Literary theory.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Literature.
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Literature -- Philosophy
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Materialism
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literatures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nilges, Mathias, editor
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Sauri, Emilio, editor
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| ISBN |
9781137339959 |
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1137339950 |
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1299951996 |
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9781299951990 |
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9781349464609 |
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1349464600 |
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