Diffractive Reading : New Materialism, Theory, Critique Paperback / softback
Edited by Kai Merten
Part of the New Critical Humanities series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 critical intervention 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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:06/04/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781538155677
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:06/04/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781538155677
