Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading

Ingrid Hotz-Davies is a Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Tübingen.Martin Middeke holds the Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg and is Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.Christoph Reinfandt holds the Chair of English Literature at the University of Tübingen.

• List of ContributorsPART I: Method Matters1 Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading: How Matter Matters on Page, Stage and ScreenIngrid Hotz-Davies, Martin Middeke and Christoph Reinfandt2 From Paper to Pulp: A Report from No Man’s LandTom McCarthy3 In the Blink of an Eye: Sound Matter, Eye-Movement and Poetic FormFelix Sprang4 Concrete Structures (in) J. G. Ballard’s Concrete IslandKylie CranePART II: Fictional Materialisations5 Moral Matters: Power, Coloniality and Narrative in Hanya Yanagihara’s The People in the TreesGero Bauer6 Longing for Matter: Nicola Barker’s Exploration of Transhuman Existence in H(A)PPYIngrid Hotz-Davies7 Invisible Materiality and Suprapersonal Narration in Richard Powers’s The OverstoryChristoph Reinfandt8 “The Entirety of the Shape Is Complicit”—A Diffractive Reading of Colum McCann’s ApeirogonMartin RiedelsheimerPART III: Poetic Materialisations9 Making Embodiment Matter in John Donne’s "The Cross" and Death’s DuelNadine Böhm-Schnitker10 Here, Hair and History: Keats’s Poetics of MaterialityDavid Lo11 Language Matters: Perception and Expression in Herder, Wordsworth and TennysonPhilipp Erchinger12 “The Mould Is Blossoming on the Wall”: Assemblages of Vibrant Borders in Northern Irish PoemsJessica BundschuhPART IV: Performing Matter13 Against the “Myth of Non‑Mediation”: Displacing the Aura and the Materiality of Live Theatre BroadcastingHeidi Lucja Liedke14 Theatre as Assemblage: Materiality and/as Texture in Tim Crouch’s Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial SalvationMartin Middeke15 Materiality, Affectivity, and the Female Disabled Body in Contemporary Automedial ArtKatrin RöderPART V: Emergent Genres16 Of Broomsticks and Doughnuts: Theorising and Historicising British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essays from 1701 to 2021Daniel Schneider17 Prose for a More-Than-Human World: John Berger, Kathleen Jamie and the Ends of GenreChristian Schmitt-Kilb18 The Practice of Colour Writing: Material-Discursive Colourscapes in Han Kang’s The White BookMascha WielandName IndexSubject Index