Literary Materialisms

1. Introduction
Mathias Nilges, Emilio Sauri

Part I. Reading and Interpretation

2. Reading Dialectically
Carolyn Lesjak

3. Marxist Criticism, Then and Now
Imre Szeman

4. Literature, Immanent Critique, and the Problem of Standpoint
Neil Larsen

5. The Biopolitical Unconscious: Toward an Eco-Marxist Literary Theory
Leerom Medovoi

Part II. The Ontology and Function of Literature

6. Work as Art and Art as Life
Sarah Brouillette

7. How to Subsume Difference, or World Reduction in Delany
Kevin Floyd

8. Defining the World
Peter Hitchcock

9. Close Reading and the Market
Nicholas Brown

Part III. Form and Genre

10. Form(alism’s) Now
Mathias Nilges

11. Objective Form: Reflections on the Dialectic of Roguery
Roberto Schwarz

12. Marxism and Melodrama
Bruno Bosteels

13. Creativity, Character, and the Making of the American Middle Class
Jason Potts

14. The Ends of Culture; or, Late Modernism, Redux
Phillip E. Wegner

Avainsanat: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, North American Literature, Literary History