Brute Meaning: Essays in Materialist Criticism from Dickens to Hitchcock

by David Trotter

The essays collected in this volume trace the evolution over a period of thirty years of a critical approach resembling what would now be described as the 'new materialism'. These essays insist that literature and film are never more vital than in their enactment of the 'brute meaning' Maurice Merleau-Ponty once found in the work of Paul C?zanne: the crude sense we make, as creatures exercising an always already dispersed and relational agency,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781889201
• ISBN13: 9781781889206
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Legenda
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"