Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Preface viii
5. Notes on Contributors x
6. Introduction 1
7. I. Matter-Oriented Perspectives on Literary Techniques, Language and Representation
8. 1. The Abundance of Things in the Midst of Writing: A Post-Anthropocentric View on Description and Georges Perec’s ‘Still Life/Style Leaf' 31
9. 2. Slow Narrative and the Perception of Material Forms 49
10. II. Object Intrusions in Subject-Centric Texts
11. 3. Aisthetic Realities in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born: A Matter-Oriented Reading of Postcolonial Literature 73
12. 4. Sylvia Plath’s ‘Tulips’: On the Hostile Nature of Things 93
13. 5. ‘We have nothing to be arrogant about’ – Hans Christian Andersen and Anti-Anthropocentrism 109
14. III. Carnal Realities: Lively Flesh in Feminist and Queer Readings
15. 6. Feminist New Materialism and Literary Studies: Methodological Meditations on the Tradition of Feminist Literary Criticism and (Post)Critique 131
16. 7. Djuna Barnes and Queer Interiorities 153
17. 8. Corporeal Creativity and Queer Gaps in Time 172
18. IV. Capitalism, Crisis and the Anthropocene
19. 9. Putting the Earth to Use: Reading Resources in the End Times (Through Science Fiction) 193
20. 10. Dry Ontology and Finance Capitalism: A Material–Affective Reading of Financial Crisis Fiction 214
21. 11. The Work of Art in the Age of Capitalist Realism: Materiality/Aura/Apocalypse 236
22. Afterword: Woodenness – The (Palm) Heart of the Matter 257
23. Index 266