Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading

List of Contributors

PART I: Method Matters

1 Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading: How Matter Matters on Page, Stage and Screen

Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Martin Middeke and Christoph Reinfandt

2 From Paper to Pulp: A Report from No Man's Land

Tom McCarthy

3 In the Blink of an Eye: Sound Matter, Eye-Movement and Poetic Form

Felix Sprang

4 Concrete Structures (in) J. G. Ballard's Concrete Island

Kylie Crane

PART II: Fictional Materialisations

5 Moral Matters: Power, Coloniality and Narrative in Hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees

Gero Bauer

6 Longing for Matter: Nicola Barker's Exploration of Transhuman Existence in H(A)PPY

Ingrid Hotz-Davies

7 Invisible Materiality and Suprapersonal Narration in Richard Powers's The Overstory

Christoph Reinfandt

8 "The Entirety of the Shape Is Complicit"-A Diffractive Reading of Colum McCann's Apeirogon

Martin Riedelsheimer

PART III: Poetic Materialisations

9 Making Embodiment Matter in John Donne's "The Cross" and Death's Duel

Nadine Boehm-Schnitker

10 Here, Hair and History: Keats's Poetics of Materiality

David Lo

11 Language Matters: Perception and Expression in Herder, Wordsworth and Tennyson

Philipp Erchinger

12 "The Mould Is Blossoming on the Wall": Assemblages of Vibrant Borders in Northern Irish Poems

Jessica Bundschuh

PART IV: Performing Matter

13 Against the "Myth of Non-Mediation": Displacing the Aura and the Materiality of Live Theatre Broadcasting

Heidi Lucja Liedke

14 Theatre as Assemblage: Materiality and/as Texture in Tim Crouch's Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

Martin Middeke

15 Materiality, Affectivity, and the Female Disabled Body in Contemporary Automedial Art

Katrin Roeder

PART V: Emergent Genres

16 Of Broomsticks and Doughnuts: Theorising and Historicising British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essays from 1701 to 2021

Daniel Schneider

17 Prose for a More-Than-Human World: John Berger, Kathleen Jamie and the Ends of Genre

Christian Schmitt-Kilb

18 The Practice of Colour Writing: Material-Discursive Colourscapes in Han Kang's The White Book

Mascha Wieland

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