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Unreadability and Speculative Fiction: Studies in Materialist Poetics

Unreadability and Speculative Fiction: Studies in Materialist Poetics

Bekavac, Luka

Hardcover

Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Book 113

Literary Criticism

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 17, 2026

ISBN10: 9004773576
ISBN13: 9789004773578
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 17 2026
Language: English
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 Bakic), 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.

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