Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading
Making Matter Matter on Page, Stage and Screen
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 20. July 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-1-032-29461-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book traces literature's long history of repurposing representational language use for performative, "material" effects. It brings this tradition into dialogue with the recent material turn in literary and cultural theory, which seeks to supplant or at least rethink the foundational influence of the linguistic turn in the field. Drawing on a variety of cutting-edge new-materialist theories, this book programmatically outlines the contours of a methodology of Interferential Reading that is then brought to bear on examples ranging from Shakespeare, Donne, Keats and Tennyson to Northern Irish poets Colette Bryce and Sinead Morrissey and Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie; from British thing essays to J. G. Ballard, John Berger, Nicola Barker, Richard Powers, Colum McCann, Tim Crouch, Hanya Yanagihara and Korean writer Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for literature, and from the history of theatrical bodies to the intermedial as well as affective textures in very recent experimental theatre, live theatre broadcasting and media art.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Illustrations
1 s/w Tabelle, 8 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 8 s/w Abbildungen
1 Tables, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-032-29461-2 (9781032294612)
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Ingrid Hotz-Davies | Martin Middeke | Christoph Reinfandt
Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading
Making Matter Matter on Page, Stage and Screen
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Ingrid Hotz-Davies | Martin Middeke | Christoph Reinfandt
Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading
Making Matter Matter on Page, Stage and Screen
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Routledge
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Ingrid Hotz-Davies | Martin Middeke | Christoph Reinfandt
Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading
Making Matter Matter on Page, Stage and Screen
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Persons
Ingrid Hotz-Davies is a Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Tuebingen.
Martin Middeke holds the Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg and is Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Christoph Reinfandt holds the Chair of English Literature at the University of Tuebingen.
Martin Middeke holds the Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg and is Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Christoph Reinfandt holds the Chair of English Literature at the University of Tuebingen.
Content
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
Name Index
Subject Index
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
Name Index
Subject Index