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oapen-20.500.12657-759182024-03-28T09:38:04Z Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction Oulanne, Laura Affective materiality;Cognitive studies;Modernist short fiction;New materialisms;Phenomenology Materiality 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. 2023-08-30T12:39:16Z 2023-08-30T12:39:16Z 2021 book 9781003156499 9780367741891 9780367741907 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75918 eng Among the Victorians and Modernists application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000391428.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003156499 10.4324/9781003156499 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781003156499 9780367741891 9780367741907 Routledge 183 open access
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Materiality 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.
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