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Unreadability and Speculative Fiction
Studies in Materialist Poetics
Series: - Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 113
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Unreadability is a crucial but largely overlooked device in literary writing. Its aesthetic potential is particularly prominent in speculative fiction, where the irreducible materiality of print can become a focus of innovation in representing otherness (the unknown, the unthinkable, the monstrous). Unreadability and Speculative Fiction explores the work of four contemporary authors (Mark Z. Danielewski, Thomas Ligotti, Reza Negarestani, and Asja BakiÄ), bringing together various strands of literary formalisms and new materialisms. Traversing the fields between literary theory and philosophy, this book offers a fresh look at the agency of writing and its specific role in genre fiction.
Luka Bekavac is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory at the Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. His current research focuses on materialist topics and practices in postmodern fiction.
This book is aimed at scholars, researchers, upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students in literary studies (contemporary fiction, popular genres, literary theory) and related fields within the Humanities, particularly philosophy.