Mathias Nilges
Biographic Data
| ID | 1134054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mathias Nilges |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mathias |
| FAMILY NAME | Nilges |
| SIGNATURE | NILGES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Francis Xavier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"On "Making Sure No One Ever Travels Too Far
Novelists whose work grapples with the climate crisis and the urgent need for structural transition return time and again to two questions: Why is it so hard for people to see what's happening? Why do we not seem to be able to imagine the transition to new environmental, social, or political systems? Authors of climate fiction show that environmental futures depend on our ability to renegotiate the limit between the "realistic" and the inconceiva…
The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945
Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, after which the US became a global military and economic leader, this book explores the origins of American utopianism and provides a trenchant critique from the point of view of those left out of the hegemonic ideal. Centring the voices of those oppressed by or omitted from the consumerist American Dream, this book celebrates alternative ways of thinking…
Introduction
What if it is not actual methodological debate but the consequences of framing a facet of differences between current literary critical positions as a large-scale method war that stand in the way of what ought to be the common goal of our discipline, namely to articulate the possible and indeed necessary futures of literary studies? This essay argues that the notion of a new method wars in literary studies should be understood as a narrative abou…
The Realism of Speculation
Research Article| March 01 2019 The Realism of Speculation: Contemporary Speculative Fiction as Immanent Critique of Finance Capitalism Mathias Nilges Mathias Nilges St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada Mathias Nilges is Associate Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. His most recent books include Literature and the Global Contemporary (2017), coedited with Sarah Brouille…
The Contemporaneity of Modernism
Contemporaneity of Modernism
Introduction
Introduction:Medium and Mediation Matt Tierney (bio) and Mathias Nilges (bio) As we were composing the introduction to this special issue of Postmodern Culture, a Missouri grand jury delivered its decision not to indict a white police officer, Darren Wilson, for the killing of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown. This decision, baffling to many, was announced in a press conference by Robert McCulloch, the prosecuting attorney for St. Louis C…
Neoliberalism and the time of the novel
This essay attempts to establish a basis from which to explore the relationship between neoliberalism and the novel and thus attempts to provide a provisional answer to the question this special issue seeks to engage: What is a neoliberal novel? The essay argues that to speak of the neoliberal novel is one way of saying ‘the novel after postmodernism’. The notion of a ‘neoliberal novel’ conceives of the relation between its constitutive terms in …
Literary Materialisms
We Need the Stars
“We Need the Stars”Change, Community, and the Absent Father in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents Mathias Nilges (bio) All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change. —Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first ti…
Neoliberalism and the time of the novel
This essay attempts to establish a basis from which to explore the relationship between neoliberalism and the novel and thus attempts to provide a provisional answer to the question this special issue seeks to engage: What is a neoliberal novel? The essay argues that to speak of the neoliberal novel is one way of saying ‘the novel after postmodernism’. The notion of a ‘neoliberal novel’ conceives of the relation between its constitutive terms in …
The Realism of Speculation
Research Article| March 01 2019 The Realism of Speculation: Contemporary Speculative Fiction as Immanent Critique of Finance Capitalism Mathias Nilges Mathias Nilges St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada Mathias Nilges is Associate Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. His most recent books include Literature and the Global Contemporary (2017), coedited with Sarah Brouille…
We Need the Stars
“We Need the Stars”Change, Community, and the Absent Father in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents Mathias Nilges (bio) All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change. —Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first ti…
We Need the Stars
“We Need the Stars”Change, Community, and the Absent Father in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents Mathias Nilges (bio) All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change. —Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first ti…
Literary Materialisms
The Contemporaneity of Modernism
Contemporaneity of Modernism
Introduction
Introduction:Medium and Mediation Matt Tierney (bio) and Mathias Nilges (bio) As we were composing the introduction to this special issue of Postmodern Culture, a Missouri grand jury delivered its decision not to indict a white police officer, Darren Wilson, for the killing of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown. This decision, baffling to many, was announced in a press conference by Robert McCulloch, the prosecuting attorney for St. Louis C…
Neoliberalism and the time of the novel
This essay attempts to establish a basis from which to explore the relationship between neoliberalism and the novel and thus attempts to provide a provisional answer to the question this special issue seeks to engage: What is a neoliberal novel? The essay argues that to speak of the neoliberal novel is one way of saying ‘the novel after postmodernism’. The notion of a ‘neoliberal novel’ conceives of the relation between its constitutive terms in …
The Realism of Speculation
Research Article| March 01 2019 The Realism of Speculation: Contemporary Speculative Fiction as Immanent Critique of Finance Capitalism Mathias Nilges Mathias Nilges St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada Mathias Nilges is Associate Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. His most recent books include Literature and the Global Contemporary (2017), coedited with Sarah Brouille…
Introduction
What if it is not actual methodological debate but the consequences of framing a facet of differences between current literary critical positions as a large-scale method war that stand in the way of what ought to be the common goal of our discipline, namely to articulate the possible and indeed necessary futures of literary studies? This essay argues that the notion of a new method wars in literary studies should be understood as a narrative abou…
The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945
Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, after which the US became a global military and economic leader, this book explores the origins of American utopianism and provides a trenchant critique from the point of view of those left out of the hegemonic ideal. Centring the voices of those oppressed by or omitted from the consumerist American Dream, this book celebrates alternative ways of thinking…
"On "Making Sure No One Ever Travels Too Far
Novelists whose work grapples with the climate crisis and the urgent need for structural transition return time and again to two questions: Why is it so hard for people to see what's happening? Why do we not seem to be able to imagine the transition to new environmental, social, or political systems? Authors of climate fiction show that environmental futures depend on our ability to renegotiate the limit between the "realistic" and the inconceiva…
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