The Plastic Turn / / Ranjan Ghosh.
The Plastic Turn offers a novel way of looking at plastic as the defining material of our age and at the plasticity of plastic as an innovative means of understanding the arts and literature. Ranjan Ghosh terms this approach the material-aesthetic and, through this concept, traces the emergence and...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 4 b&w halftones, 16 color halftones, 1 diagram |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Turn to . . . -- 1. The Plastic Turn -- 2. Plastic Literary -- 3. Plastic Touch -- 4. Plastic Literature -- 5. Plastic Affect -- Turn on . . . -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | The Plastic Turn offers a novel way of looking at plastic as the defining material of our age and at the plasticity of plastic as an innovative means of understanding the arts and literature. Ranjan Ghosh terms this approach the material-aesthetic and, through this concept, traces the emergence and development of plastic polymers along the same historical trajectory as literary modernism. Plastic's growth as a product in the culture industry, its formation through multiple application and chemical syntheses, and its circulation via oceanic movements, Ghosh argues, correspond with, and offers novel insights into, developments in modernist literature and critical theory.Through innovative readings of canonical modernist texts, analyses of art works, and accounts of plastic's devastating environmental impact, The Plastic Turn proposes plastic's unique properties and destructive ubiquity as a "theory machine" to explain literature and life in the Anthropocene. Introducing several new concepts (like plastic literature, plastic literary, etc.) into critical-humanist discourse, Ghosh enmeshes literature and theory, materiality and philosophy, history and ecology, to explore why plastic as a substance and as an idea intrigues, disturbs, and haunts us. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501766282 9783110739084 9783110751826 9783110993899 9783110994810 9783110993752 9783110993738 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781501766282 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Ranjan Ghosh. |