The Plastic Turn
Ranjan Ghosh, "The Plastic Turn"
English | ISBN: 150176697X | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 13 MB
English | ISBN: 150176697X | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 13 MB
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.
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