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On longing : narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection / Susan Stewart.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Stewart, Susan, 1952- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Semiotics and literature.
Physical Description:
xiv, 213 pages : 2 illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition:
First paperback edition.
Other Title:
Narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection
Place of Publication:
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [1993]
Summary:
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.
Contents:
On description and the book: Stlll life ; The sadness without an object ; Interior decorations ; Space of language
The miniature: Micrographia ; Tableau : the miniature described ; The secret life of things ; The dollhouse ; Miniature time
The gigantic: Skywriting : exteriority and nature ; Exteriority : the city ; The gigantic described ; The lie : gigiantism in language
The imaginary body: The grotesque body ; The body made miniature ; The Tom Thumb wedding ; Reading the body
Object of desire : the souvenir: The selfish ; Distance and intimacy ; Separation and restoration
Object of desire : context destroyed: Inside and outside ; Metaconsumption : the female impersonator
Conclusion/Litotes
Notes.
Notes:
Originally published : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1984.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-204) and index.
ISBN:
0822313669
9780822313663
0801831164
9780801831164
OCLC:
27011292

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