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The Plastic Turn (Paperback)
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The Plastic Turn offers a novel way of looking at plastic as the
defining material of our age and at the plasticity of plastic as an
innovative means of understanding the arts and literature. Ranjan
Ghosh terms this approach the material-aesthetic and, through this
concept, traces the emergence and development of plastic polymers
along the same historical trajectory as literary modernism.
Plastic's growth as a product in the culture industry, its
formation through multiple application and chemical syntheses, and
its circulation via oceanic movements, Ghosh argues, correspond
with, and offers novel insights into, developments in modernist
literature and critical theory. Through innovative readings of
canonical modernist texts, analyses of art works, and accounts of
plastic's devastating environmental impact, The Plastic Turn
proposes plastic's unique properties and destructive ubiquity as a
"theory machine" to explain literature and life in the
Anthropocene. Introducing several new concepts (like plastic
literature, plastic literary, etc.) into critical-humanist
discourse, Ghosh enmeshes literature and theory, materiality and
philosophy, history and ecology, to explore why plastic as a
substance and as an idea intrigues, disturbs, and haunts us.
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