Opis: On Longing - Susan Stewart, Stewart

Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of "On Longing," a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally published in 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press), and now available in paperback for the first time, this highly original book draws on insights from semiotics and from psychoanalytic, feminist, and marxist criticism. Addressing the relations of language to experience, the body to scale, and narratives to objects, Susan Stewart looks at the "miniature" as a metaphor for interiority and at the "gigantic" as an exaggeration of aspects of the exterior. In the final part of her essay Stewart examines the ways in which the "souvenir" and the "collection" are objects mediating experience in time and space. "Stewart's work provides an oasis in contemporary criticism, a place where theory and poetry, systematic reflection and the essayistic plunge into particular cases, come together in a refreshing synthesis."--W. J. T. Mitchell

Szczegóły: On Longing - Susan Stewart, Stewart

Tytuł: On Longing
Autor: Susan Stewart, Stewart
Producent: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822313663
Rok produkcji: 1993
Ilość stron: 232
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.23 kg

Recenzje: On Longing - Susan Stewart, Stewart