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General Introduction: Opposition of the Faculties, Philosophy's Literary Impossibility |
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Part I Beyond the Postmodern: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of the Contemporary |
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1 The Polymodern Condition: A Report on Cluelessness |
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22 | (19) |
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2 Metamodernism: Period, Structure of Feeling, and Cultural Logic -- A Case Study of Contemporary Autofiction |
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41 | (14) |
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3 The Ends of Metafiction, or, The Romantic Time of Egan's Goon Squad |
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55 | (19) |
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4 Virtually Human: Posthumanism and (Post-)Postmodern Cyberspace in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story |
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74 | (25) |
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Part II Beyond the Subject: Posthuman and Nonhuman Literary Criticism |
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5 Helene Cixous's So Close; or, Moving Matters on the Subject |
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102 | (20) |
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6 Meillassoux, the Critique of Correlationism, and British Romanticism |
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122 | (16) |
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7 Fictional Objects Fictional Subjects |
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138 | (14) |
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8 On the Death of Meaning |
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152 | (23) |
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Part III Beyond the Object: Reading Literature through Actor-Network Theory, Object-Oriented Philosophy, and the New Materialisms |
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175 | (4) |
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9 Neither Billiard Ball nor Planet B: Latour's Gaia, Literary Agency, and the Challenge of Writing Geohistory in the Anthropocene Moment |
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179 | (19) |
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10 Three Problems of Formalism: An Object-Oriented View |
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198 | (17) |
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11 A Field of Heteronyms and Homonyms: New Materialism, Speculative Fabulation, and Wor(l)ding |
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215 | (19) |
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12 Emerson's Speculative Pragmatism |
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234 | (21) |
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Part IV Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Literature through Anglo-American Philosophy |
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13 Two Examples of Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Conant Reading Rorty Reading Orwell - Interpretation at the Intersection of Philosophy and Literature |
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258 | (21) |
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14 Stanley Cavell and the Politics of Modernism |
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279 | (18) |
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15 Inferentialist Semantics, Intimationist Aesthetics, and Walden |
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297 | (20) |
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Part V Embodiment as Ethics: Literature and Life in the Anthropocene |
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317 | (4) |
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16 Living to Tell the Story: Characterisation, Narrative Perspective, and Ethics in Climate Crisis Flood Novels |
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321 | (17) |
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17 Contemporary Anthropocene Novels: Ian McEwan's Solar, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood |
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338 | (23) |
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18 The Day of the Dark Precursor: Philosophy, Fiction, and Fabulation at the End of the World -- A Fictocritical Guide |
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361 | (21) |
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382 | (9) |
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Part VI Politics after Discipline: Literature, Life, Control |
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391 | (3) |
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20 Literary Study's Biopolitics |
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394 | (16) |
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21 We Have Been Paranoid Too Long to Stop Now |
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410 | (19) |
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22 Securing Neoliberalism: The Contingencies of Contemporary US Fiction |
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429 | (21) |
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23 Automatic Art, Automated Trading: Finance, Fiction, and Philosophy |
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450 | (16) |
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| Notes on Contributors |
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| Index |
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