The Materiality of Love (eBook, PDF)

Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice
Redaktion: Malinowska, Anna; Gratzke, Michael

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on love studies and research in material cultures, this book seeks to re-examine love through materiality studies, especially their recent incarnations, new materialism and object-oriented philosophy, to spark a debate on the relationship between love, objects and forms of materializing affection.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351856713
• Artikelnr.: 49354359

Autorenporträt

Anna Malinowska is Assistant Professor in literary and cultural studies at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures (IECL), University of Silesia, Poland. Michael Gratzke is Professor of German and Comparative Literature as well as Associate Dean for Research at the University of Hull, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Love Matters



Anna Malinowska and Michael Gratzke



Part I: Material Love

1. Love Materialism. Technologies of Feeling in the Post-Material World (An Interview)



Dominic Pettman



2. Love Among Objects: Poetry and Time in Light of the Phenomenology of Values



Jacek Mydla



3. Love is Tender: A Critical Approach to Pansexualism



Julie Reshe



Part II: Affective Connections. Materializing the Amorous

4. Between the Covers: Couples Making Books Together as a Practice of Love





Yvonne Clarke-Salt

5.Overcoming Absence: From Love Letters to Skype



Camilla Skovbjerg Padlam



6.The Matter of Kissing



Anna Malinowska



Part III: Objectified Amour: Representation and Social Practice

7. The Rise and Fall of 'Emotional Capitalism': Consumerism and Materialities of Love in Dystopian Works by Thomas Melle, Leif Randt and Gary Shteyngart



Michael Gratzke



8. Reifying Innocence: Material Contexts of Love in The Age of Innocence and The Museum of Innocence



Hulya Yagcioglu



9.Organic Love: Reclaiming Solidity Through Nature and Farming



Karolina Lebek



10.(Dis)Affectionate Fetishism: Dispossessed Love in Othello and Late Modernity



Adrian Howe



Part IV: Affectionate Subjectivity

11. Exploring Maternal Affective Investments: Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document (1973-79) and the Material Narrative of Love



Justyna Wierzchowska



12. The Amorous Frenzy of Things: Georges Bataille's Basely Material Love





Michal Krzykawski

13. The Queer Love Life of Photo(n)s





Tomasz Sikora

Part V: Creating Forms of Love

14. Embodied Soulmarks and Social Expectations: The Materialization of Ro