{"product_id":"literature-and-materialisms","title":"Literature and Materialisms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterature and Materialisms\u003c\/em\u003e sheds light on the current new wave of materialisms and assesses the impact on literary theory and criticism. It maps the similarities and differences between speculative realism, object-oriented philosophy, and vitalism. A genealogy of materialisms, vitalisms, empiricisms, and realist approaches - from Heraclitus to Badiou, including Lucretius, Spinoza, Marx, Althusser, Barad, Spivak, Deleuze, Bennett, Harman, and other contemporary thinkers - puts these new trends into perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates the relations between literature – from Marquis de Sade to objectivist poetry - and materialism and analyses the material aspects of literature, its structure and texture, its commodification and its capacity to resist market imperatives. It explores how literary style might be understood as a mediation between the ‘immaterial’ and the concrete features of a text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume provides students and academics with an accessible overview of the study of literature and materialism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54238917230936,"sku":"9781138675704","price":50.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138675704.jpg?v=1768465841","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/literature-and-materialisms","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}