@misc{10481/88771, year = {2020}, url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/88771}, abstract = {This article provides a context for the section “Creating Language and Theorizing Literature”. The editors of the section discuss both contemporary and historical articulations of the materiality of language from a new materialist perspective. The new materialist project comprises looking for the immanence of language via three realms: its relation, its theorization, and its creation. Therefore, moving away from representationalist practices demands a definition of language as animate, sensory material requiring creative labour for its realisation. The article provides an example of this materialization of language, via the concept of bodywording.}, organization = {COST IS1307: Networking European New Materialisms: How Matter comes to matter}, title = {Decomposing Matter: From literary critique to language creation}, doi = {10.1344/jnmr.v1i1.29299}, author = {Palmer, Helen and Revelles Benavente, Beatriz}, }