Moving words, crossing boundaries. Anne Carson's queer books and the material turn in comparative literary studies

This article explores the ways in which the material turn in the humanities and social sciences contributes to the redefinition and reformulation of the objects that comparative literature studies. It asks how attention to « things » modifies our practices as comparatists, and how this renewed focus on the materiality of literary works can be understood as aligned with gender and queer studies. To inquire into these questions, I focus on the work of Anne Carson, specifically Nox (2010), a wor...