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Entangled with Colour: New Materialist Explorations in English Colour Writing
Mascha Wieland
https://doi.org/10.15496/publikation-97246
The topic of colour in literature is usually addressed in terms of semantics and figurative uses of colour. Entangled with Colour: New Materialist Explorations in English Colour Writing presents another take on colour in literary texts. It introduces the practice of colour writing, which stresses the relationality between colour, matter, words and affects. With precursors in fin-de-siècle and modernist literature, a genre of colour writing has evolved since the end of the 20th century with Derek Jarman’s Chroma, Maggie Nelson’s Bluets and Han Kang’s The White Book. This study demonstrates how these texts create a material-discursive dimension of colour which in turn requires a rethinking of how to read colour. To examine the complex materialisations of colour-matter in these texts, the study engages with a new materialist understanding of matter and agency. It further introduces a new reading strategy, an attentive reading, that aims to unfold the various shades of colour’s material-discursive doings in colour writings. Such an attentive reading follows a postcritical tradition and is developed in close dialogue with texts by Nan Shepherd. By attentively describing the entanglements between colour, matter, text and reader, this study explores how colour-matter makes itself felt in the reading process and how colour writings entangle the reader with their unique colourscapes.
Poetry, Performativity, and Ordinary Language Philosophy
Philip Mills
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78615-0
How can Ordinary Language Philosophy (OLP) help us understand poetry? Against John L. Austin’s exclusion of poetic utterances as parasitical, Philip Mills explores how contemporary poetics broadens the aims and scope of OLP. Through the analysis of French and American poetry that reinterprets notions such as illocution, perlocution, and language-games, Mills develops a poetic philosophy of language, revealing its viral and transformative nature. Poetry, Performativity, and Ordinary Language Philosophy bridges philosophy and poetry, showing how poetry contaminates and reshapes our ways of thinking and being in the world, and combining the poetic and the ethical in the notion of ‘poethics.’ This Open Access book offers a new perspective on the poetic and literary potential of OLP and the intersections between the philosophy of language and poetry.
The ‘Second World’ in Contemporary British Writing
Katrin Berndt, Andrew Wells
https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737017572
The thirteen contributions to this collection all explore or exemplify the ongoing British interest in the socialist world before 1990. In autobiography, fiction, film, history, and lexicography, these chapters show how contemporary Britain is engaging with the past project to build socialism in Europe, and what this means for the present and the future of our continent. Contributions come from a wide range of disciplinary and geographical backgrounds, and the volume is further enriched by a short story especially written for this book and by an in-depth interview with the author of a recent popular history of the GDR. Together, these chapters offer a unique perspective into contemporary British writing on the ‘second world’ and the enduring fascination with the failures of futures past.
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