An interdisciplinary encounter between new materialist and object-oriented studies and literary criticism. Through a rethinking of the relationship between the subject and object, the human and the nonhuman, this volume shows how literature and post-anthropocentric theory can illuminate each other in mutually productive ways. Focusing on how the study of literature is an underdeveloped field within 'the material turn', the introduction and each of the eleven chapters examine ways in which new materialist and object-oriented theory opens the study of literature in new ways just as they demonstrate the deep entanglements in literature of human and nonhuman realities. The collection includes an Afterword by Timothy Morton and hands-on analyses and close readings of individual works by such diverse writers as Hans Christian Andersen, Djuna Barnes, Sylvia Plath, Georges Perec, Ayi Kwei Armah, Jeanette Winterson and Paolo Bacigalupi.

About the Author
Sten Pultz Moslund, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature & English Studies, University of Southern Denmark. Marlene Karlsson Marcussen, Assistant Lecturer in Comparative Literature, University of Southern Denmark. Martin Karlsson Pedersen, Assistant Lecturer in Comparative Literature, University of Southern Denmark.


Book Information
ISBN 9781474461320
Author Sten Pultz Moslund
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press