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Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading: Making Matter Matter on Page, Stage and Screen book cover

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Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading Making Matter Matter on Page, Stage and Screen

Edited By Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt Copyright 2025
286 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book traces literature’s long history of repurposing representational language use for performative, “material” effects. It brings this tradition into dialogue with the recent material turn in literary and cultural theory, which seeks to supplant or at least rethink the foundational influence of the linguistic turn in the field. Drawing on a variety of cutting‑edge new‑materialist theories,... Read more

List of Contributors

 

PART I: Method Matters

1             Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading: How Matter Matters on Page, Stage and Screen

               Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Martin Middeke and Christoph Reinfandt

2            From Paper to Pulp: A Report from No Man’s Land

              Tom McCarthy

3          In the Blink of an Eye: Sound Matter, Eye-Movement and Poetic Form

            Felix Sprang

4          Concrete Structures (in) J. G. Ballard’s Concrete Island

            Kylie Crane

 

PART II: Fictional Materialisations

5          Moral Matters: Power, Coloniality and Narrative in Hanya Yanagihara’s The People in the Trees

            Gero Bauer

6          Longing for Matter: Nicola Barker’s Exploration of Transhuman Existence in H(A)PPY

            Ingrid Hotz-Davies

7          Invisible Materiality and Suprapersonal Narration in Richard Powers’s The Overstory

            Christoph Reinfandt

8          “The Entirety of the Shape Is Complicit”—A Diffractive Reading of Colum McCann’s Apeirogon

            Martin Riedelsheimer

PART III: Poetic Materialisations

9          Making Embodiment Matter in John Donne’s "The Cross" and Death’s Duel

           Nadine Böhm-Schnitker

10        Here, Hair and History: Keats’s Poetics of Materiality

            David Lo

11        Language Matters: Perception and Expression in Herder, Wordsworth and Tennyson

            Philipp Erchinger

12        “The Mould Is Blossoming on the Wall”: Assemblages of Vibrant Borders in Northern Irish Poems

            Jessica Bundschuh

PART IV: Performing Matter

13        Against the “Myth of Non‑Mediation”: Displacing the Aura and the Materiality of Live Theatre   Broadcasting

            Heidi Lucja Liedke

14        Theatre as Assemblage: Materiality and/as Texture in Tim Crouch’s Total Immediate Collective   Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

            Martin Middeke

15        Materiality, Affectivity, and the Female Disabled Body in Contemporary Automedial Art

            Katrin Röder

PART V: Emergent Genres

16        Of Broomsticks and Doughnuts: Theorising and Historicising British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essays from 1701 to 2021

            Daniel Schneider

17        Prose for a More-Than-Human World: John Berger, Kathleen Jamie and the Ends of Genre

            Christian Schmitt-Kilb

18        The Practice of Colour Writing: Material-Discursive Colourscapes in Han Kang’s The White Book

            Mascha Wieland

Name Index
Subject Index

Biography

Ingrid Hotz-Davies is a Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Tübingen.

Martin Middeke holds the Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg and is Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Christoph Reinfandt holds the Chair of English Literature at the University of Tübingen.

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