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.
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.
Kai Merten is professor of British literature at the University of Erfurt. His main research and teaching interests are British literature and culture from various medial, material and global perspectives. He is the founder of the Erfurt Network on New Materialism (ENNM) and has initiated cooperations in the field of New Materialist methodologies with similar research groups in Erfurt (Max-Weber-Kolleg), Weimar, Utrecht, Berlin, Aarhus, Odense, Kiel and Warsaw.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction - Kai Merten (Erfurt, Germany) PART I: Diffractive Reading: Groundwork 2. On the Politics of Diffractive Reading - Birgit M. Kaiser 3. Heraclitus's speculative onto-story: Impossible appointments and the importance of the encounter - Max Walther 4. Decoherent Reading: On the Constitutive Exclusions of Diffractive Reading - Stacey Moran 5. Reading speculative horror readings diffractively - Peter Schuck PART II: Diffracting Literature: Diffractions of the World-Text-Reader Entanglement 6. Poem, Epic, and Epoch: A Diffractive Reading of William Carlos Williams's Paterson and Georg Lukács's Theory of the Novel in the Age of New Materialism - Brendan Johnston 7. Sauron's Sliding Door: The Diffraction of Mythological and Intimate 'Evil' in Tolkien - Bo Kampmann Walther 8. Sensing I and Eyes in Ali Smith's How to Be Both - Daniela Keller 9. Practices of Entanglement: UnReading the Genre in China Miéville'sThe Scar - Agnieszka Kotwasinska 10. The Entanglements of Harry Burden: A Diff
1. Introduction - Kai Merten (Erfurt, Germany) PART I: Diffractive Reading: Groundwork 2. On the Politics of Diffractive Reading - Birgit M. Kaiser 3. Heraclitus's speculative onto-story: Impossible appointments and the importance of the encounter - Max Walther 4. Decoherent Reading: On the Constitutive Exclusions of Diffractive Reading - Stacey Moran 5. Reading speculative horror readings diffractively - Peter Schuck PART II: Diffracting Literature: Diffractions of the World-Text-Reader Entanglement 6. Poem, Epic, and Epoch: A Diffractive Reading of William Carlos Williams's Paterson and Georg Lukács's Theory of the Novel in the Age of New Materialism - Brendan Johnston 7. Sauron's Sliding Door: The Diffraction of Mythological and Intimate 'Evil' in Tolkien - Bo Kampmann Walther 8. Sensing I and Eyes in Ali Smith's How to Be Both - Daniela Keller 9. Practices of Entanglement: UnReading the Genre in China Miéville'sThe Scar - Agnieszka Kotwasinska 10. The Entanglements of Harry Burden: A Diff
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