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OverviewMateriality in Modernist Short Fiction provides a fresh approach to reading material things in modern fiction, accounting for the interplay of the material and the cultural. This volume investigates how Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys use the short story form to evoke the material world as both living and lived, and how the spaces they create for challenging gendered social norms can also be nonanthropocentric spaces for encounters between the human and the nonhuman. Using the unique knowledge created by literary works to spark new conversations between phenomenology, cognitive studies, and new materialisms, complemented with a feminist perspective, this book explores how literature can touch the basic experience of being in, feeling and making sense of a material world that is itself alive and active. From a sensitive reading of how three women used the material world to make their readers see, feel, and question the norms shaping our experience, this volume draws a theory of reading affective materiality that illuminates modernism and the short story form but also reaches beyond them. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laura OulannePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.263kg ISBN: 9780367741907ISBN 10: 0367741903 Pages: 172 Publication Date: 09 January 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction Reading Things, Senses, and Meanings Intricate Things on the Page: the Modernist Short Fiction of Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys 2. Powerful Things Ironical Spirits and Living Mannequins: Jean Rhys, Magic, and Surrealism Dolls, Boots, and Madames: Djuna Barnes Rewrites Fetishism 3. Lively Things Djuna Barnes’s Piled-up and Entangled Assemblages Katherine Mansfield Writing a Nonhuman Life 4. Touching Things Nice Things: Materiality and Positive affect in Katherine Mansfield’s and Jean Rhys’s Stories The Affective Journeys of Djuna Barnes’s and Katherine Mansfield’s Stories 5. Making Sense of Things Masses and Vividnesses: the Aesthetics and Ethics of The Left Bank At the Indifferent Bay: Nonhuman Perspectives and Meaning in Katherine Mansfield’s Stories Djuna Barnes’s Detail and the Materiality of the Symbolic 6. Conclusion: Reading Affective MaterialityReviewsAuthor InformationLaura Oulanne is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki and a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Helsinki and Justus Liebig University, Giessen. She has published on materiality, affectivity, and the mind in Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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