{"product_id":"the-plastic-turn-ranjan-ghosh-9781501766978","title":"The Plastic Turn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Plastic Turn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e Ranjan Ghosh terms this approach the \u003ci\u003ematerial-aesthetic\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough innovative readings of canonical modernist texts, analyses of art works, and accounts of plastic's devastating environmental impact, \u003ci\u003eThe Plastic Turn\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ranjan Ghosh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150176697X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501766978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2023","brand":"Ranjan Ghosh","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44071539933439,"sku":"9781501766978","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_18c76972-a774-44c1-ac53-3ff149dd80ff.jpg?v=1685436705","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-plastic-turn-ranjan-ghosh-9781501766978","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}