Diffractive Reading: New Materialism, Theory, Critique - Couverture souple

 
9781538155677: Diffractive Reading: New Materialism, Theory, Critique
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ISBN 10 : 1538155672 ISBN 13 : 9781538155677
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023

Synopsis

Putting the New Materialist figure of diffraction to use in a set of readings - in which cultural texts are materially read against their contents and their themes, against their readers or against other texts - this volume proposes a criticalintervention into the practice of reading itself. In this book, reading and reading methodology are probed for their materiality and re-considered as being inevitably suspended between, or diffracted with, both matter and discourse. The history of literary and cultural reading, including poststructuralism and critical theory, is revisited in a new light and opened-up for a future in which the world and reading are no longer regarded as conveniently separate spheres, but recognized as deeply entangled and intertwined.

Diffractive Reading ultimately represents a new reading of reading itself: firstly by critiquing the distanced perspective of critical paradigms such as translation and intertextuality, in which texts encountered, processed or otherwise subdued; secondly, showing how all literary and cultural readings represent different 'agential cuts' in the world-text-reader constellation, which is always both discursive and material; and thirdly, the volume materializes, dynamizes and politicizes the activity of reading by drawing attention to reading's intervention in, and (co)creation of, the world in which we live.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kai Merten is professor of British literary studies at the University of Erfurt. He is the founder of the Erfurt Network on New Materialism (ENNM).

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Éditeur
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1538155672
ISBN 13 
9781538155677
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Éditeur
Merten Kai
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9781786613967: Diffractive Reading: New Materialism, Theory, Critique

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ISBN 10 :  1786613964 ISBN 13 :  9781786613967
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2021
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