Ian Tan is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and Associate Editor of The Wallace Stevens Journal. He is the author of Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity, Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Form, Order, and Creative Un-Doing and Understanding Barbara Kingsolver, and editor of Wallace Stevens in Theory.

• Chapter 1: McCormack and Philosophical Worldhood: Fiction, Modernity, and the Limits of Understanding After Heidegger.- Chapter 2: Getting It in the Head and the Varieties of Cynicism: Violence and Regeneration.- Chapter 3: Crowe’s Requiem and the Poverty of Worldhood Thinking at the Edges of Reality.- Chapter 4: The Future of Technological Worldhood in Notes from a Coma and Forensic Songs: Possibilities of the Posthuman and Anti-Anthropological.- Chapter 5: Hauntology and the Unsettled Present in Solar Bones Witnessing Exclusion.- Chapter 6: This Plague of Souls, Memory, and the Loss of Connection What Does it Mean to be Poor in World.

Ian Tan is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and Associate Editor of The Wallace Stevens Journal. He is the author of Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity, Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Form, Order, and Creative Un-Doing and Understanding Barbara Kingsolver, and editor of Wallace Stevens in Theory.

• Chapter 1: McCormack and Philosophical Worldhood: Fiction, Modernity, and the Limits of Understanding After Heidegger.- Chapter 2: Getting It in the Head and the Varieties of Cynicism: Violence and Regeneration.- Chapter 3: Crowe’s Requiem and the Poverty of Worldhood Thinking at the Edges of Reality.- Chapter 4: The Future of Technological Worldhood in Notes from a Coma and Forensic Songs: Possibilities of the Posthuman and Anti-Anthropological.- Chapter 5: Hauntology and the Unsettled Present in Solar Bones Witnessing Exclusion.- Chapter 6: This Plague of Souls, Memory, and the Loss of Connection What Does it Mean to be Poor in World.

Ian Tan is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and Associate Editor of The Wallace Stevens Journal. He is the author of Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity, Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Form, Order, and Creative Un-Doing and Understanding Barbara Kingsolver, and editor of Wallace Stevens in Theory.

• Chapter 1: McCormack and Philosophical Worldhood: Fiction, Modernity, and the Limits of Understanding After Heidegger.- Chapter 2: Getting It in the Head and the Varieties of Cynicism: Violence and Regeneration.- Chapter 3: Crowe’s Requiem and the Poverty of Worldhood Thinking at the Edges of Reality.- Chapter 4: The Future of Technological Worldhood in Notes from a Coma and Forensic Songs: Possibilities of the Posthuman and Anti-Anthropological.- Chapter 5: Hauntology and the Unsettled Present in Solar Bones Witnessing Exclusion.- Chapter 6: This Plague of Souls, Memory, and the Loss of Connection What Does it Mean to be Poor in World.