Decomposing MatterFrom literary critique to language creation

  1. Palmer, Helen 1
  2. Revelles-Benavente, Beatriz 2
  1. 1 Kingston University London, United Kingdom
  2. 2 Junior Lecturer at the English Department at the University of Granada
Revista:
MATTER: journal of new materialist research

ISSN: 2604-7551

Año de publicación: 2020

Título del ejemplar: Introduction to Matter's genealogies

Volumen: 1

Número: 1

Páginas: 109-137

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1344/JNMR.V1I1.29299 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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Resumen

This article provides a context for the section “Creating Language and Theorizing Literature”. The editors of the section discuss both contemporary and historicalarticulations of the materiality of language from a new materialist perspective. The new materialist project comprises looking for the immanence of language via three realms: its relation, its theorization, and its creation. Therefore, moving away from representationalist practices demands a definition of language as animate, sensory material requiring creative labour for its realisation. The article provides an example of this materialization of language, via the concept of bodywording. 

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