Affec­tive mate­ri­al­i­ties: reori­ent­ing the body in mod­ernist lit­er­a­ture
Affec­tive Mate­ri­al­i­ties reex­am­ines mod­ernist the­o­riza­tions of the body and opens up the artis­tic, polit­i­cal, and eth­i­cal pos­si­bil­i­ties at the inter­sec­tion of affect the­o­ry and eco­crit­i­cism, two recent direc­tions in lit­er­ary stud­ies not typ­i­cal­ly brought into con­ver­sa­tion.
Mod­ernist cre­ativ­i­ty, the vol­ume pro­pos­es, may return to us notions of the feel­ing, mate­r­i­al body that con­tem­po­rary schol­ar­ship has lost touch with, bod­ies that sug­gest alter­na­tive rela­tions to oth­ers and to the world. Con­trib­u­tors argue that mod­ernist writ­ers fre­quent­ly bridge the dichoto­my between body and world by por­tray­ing bod­ies that merge with or are re-cre­at­ed by their sur­round­ings into an amal­gam of self and place. Chap­ters focus on this treat­ment of the body through works by canon­i­cal mod­ernists includ­ing William Car­los Williams, Vir­ginia Woolf, and E. M. Forster along­side less­er-stud­ied writ­ers Janet Frame, Her­bert Read, and Nel­la Larsen.
Show­ing the ways the body in lit­er­a­ture can be a lens for under­stand­ing the flu­idi­ties of race, gen­der, and sex­u­al­i­ty, as well as species and sub­jec­tiv­i­ty, this vol­ume maps the con­nec­tions among mod­ernist aes­thet­ics, his­to­ries of the twen­ti­eth-cen­tu­ry body, and the con­cerns of mod­ernism that can also speak to urgent con­cerns of today.
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Gen­Re­Vi­sions: Genre Exper­i­men­ta­tion and World-Con­struc­tion in Con­tem­po­rary Anglo­phone Lit­er­a­ture
Despite decades in the naughty cor­ner of lit­er­ary stud­ies, genre has arguably become an increas­ing­ly cen­tral cat­e­go­ry to the pro­duc­tion and inter­pre­ta­tion of con­tem­po­rary lit­er­a­ture. ‘Gen­Re­Vi­sions’ exam­ines the scope of genre usage in Anglo­phone lit­er­a­ture today and its effects on the con­struc­tion of lit­er­ary and extra-lit­er­ary ‘worlds’.
Com­bin­ing insights from prag­mat­ics, cog­ni­tive poet­ics and con­struc­tivist phi­los­o­phy, the first part of the study pro­motes a revi­sion of received genre con­cep­tions in favour of a new con­cep­tu­al metaphor that fore­grounds the dis­cur­sive dimen­sion of gener­ic prac­tices. The sec­ond part explores diverse forms of genre exper­i­men­ta­tion in three recent par­a­dig­mat­ic works: David Mitchell’s ‘Cloud Atlas’, Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’, and Steven Hall’s ‘The Raw Shark Texts’. These texts all evoke famil­iar gen­res to pro­vide dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives on or cre­ate new visions of real­i­ty. Togeth­er, they pro­vide a panora­ma of con­tem­po­rary genre usage.
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