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- Title
The Well-Wrought Broken Hammer: Object-Oriented Literary Criticism.
- Authors
Harman, Graham
- Abstract
The article discusses object-oriented philosophy, or a rejection of the notion that humans are privileged over nonhuman animals and objects, as it relates to literary theory. The author comments on the application of the philosophical theory speculative realism and object-oriented philosophy to the 20th-century literary theories of New Criticism, New Historicism, and deconstruction. Other topics addressed include materialist literature, cultural elements of literature, and countermethodology.
- Subjects
OBJECT (Philosophy); LITERARY criticism; REALISM; NEW Criticism; NEW Historicism; DECONSTRUCTION; SEMIOTICS &; literature; PHILOSOPHY &; literature
- Publication
New Literary History, 2012, Vol 43, Issue 2, p183
- ISSN
0028-6087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/nlh.2012.0016