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Author Palmer, Helen, author.

Title Queer defamiliarisation : writing, mattering, making strange / Helen Palmer.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series New materialisms
New materialisms (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Contents 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
Summary 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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Subject Formalism (Literary analysis)
Formalism (Literary analysis)
Linguistics, Experimental.
Linguistics, Experimental.
Queer theory.
Queer theory.
Feminist literary criticism.
Feminist literary criticism.
Marxist criticism.
Marxist criticism.
Formalism (Literature)
Formalism (Literature)
Feminist criticism.
Feminist criticism.
Queer theory.
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