Queer defamiliarisation writing, mattering, making strange /

Palmer, Helen,

Queer defamiliarisation writing, mattering, making strange / Helen Palmer. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource. - New materialisms .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introductions -- Introduction 1: Defamiliarising -- Introduction 2: Queering -- Introduction 3: Mattering -- Chapter summaries -- 1 Synvariance -- Horizontal/vertical -- By any other name a rose is a rose by any other name -- Stasis/flow -- Repetition/difference -- Every term must be supplanted by another term -- Variance/invariance -- Zombie signs/metanoia -- Axis/assemblage -- Intra-acting/intra-secting -- Boycunt/logic of the 'as' -- 2 Mythorefleshings -- Personae: conceptual, narrative, collective? -- Paradoxical relationalities: intimacy and estrangement Gendered perception: queer defamiliarisation -- Conclusion: syntaxa/parataxa -- 3 A Field of Heteronyms and Homonyms: New Materialism, Speculative Fabulation and Wor(l)ding -- Prologue: THE FIELD -- Fictocriticism -- or, flowers at the lip of the world -- Worlding from Heidegger to Haraway -- Agential realism and the material-discursive -- Speculative topoi: Afrofuturism as uchronia -- Wor(l)dings: speculative fabulation, hyperstition, fictioning, myth-science -- Wor(l)dings: heteronymy, homonymy, contingency -- Epilogue: THE FIELD -- 4 Sensorium -- Deforming the senses -- Deforming dimensions Deforming perception -- Interstitium 1: The Surface, or Alice and the Hermunculus -- Deforming touches: queer haptics -- Interstitium 2: Speculative Taxonomies -- Sirens and Organs, or, If These Whorls Could Talk -- Concluding comments -- Epilogue -- A Hymn to Sol, or, She Rides the Tram in Different Voices, or A Heliochronic Tram Journey on Blackpool Promenade at Sunset, or, Radio Blackpool -- Bibliography -- Index

Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and queer theory.



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Formalism (Literary analysis)
Linguistics, Experimental.
Queer theory.
Feminist literary criticism.
Marxist criticism.
Formalism (Literature)
Feminist criticism.


Electronic Books.

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