Acknowledgements Foreword I. Introduction II. Matter-oriented Perspectives on Literary Techniques, Language and Representation 1. The Abundance of Things in the Midst of Writing: A Post-Anthropocentric View on Description and Georges Perec's Still Life/Style Leaf? Marlene Karlsson Marcussen 2. Slow Narrative and the Perception of Material Forms Marco Caracciolo III. Object Intrusions in Subject-Centric Texts 3. Aisthetic Realities in Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born . A Matter-Oriented Reading of Postcolonial Literature Sten Pultz Moslund 4.

Sylvia Plath's 'Tulips': On the Hostile Nature of Things Michael Karlsson Pedersen 5. 'We have nothing to be arrogant about' - Hans Christian Andersen and Anti-Anthropocentrism Torsten Bøgh Thomsen ? IV. Carnal Realities: Lively Flesh in Feminist and Queer Readings 6. Feminist New Materialism and Literary Studies: Methodological Meditations on the Tradition of Feminist Literary Criticism and (Post)Critique Tobias Skiveren 7. Djuna Barnes and Queer Interiorities Laura Oulanne 8. Corporeal Creativity and Queer Gaps in Time Karin Sellberg V. Capitalism, Crisis and the Anthropocene 9. Putting the Earth to Use: Reading Resources in the End Times (Through Science Fiction) Rune Graulund 10.

Dry Ontology and Finance Capitalism: An Affective-Material Reading of Financial Crisis Fiction Martin Karlsson Pedersen 11. The New Work of Art in the Age of Capitalist Realism: Materiality/ Aura/ Apocalypse Maurizia Boscagli VI. Afterword 12. Woodenness: The (Palm) Heart of The Matter Timothy Morton Notes on Contributors Index.