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Worldly acts and sentient things : the persistence of agency from Stein to DeLillo / Robert Chodat.
Van Pelt Library PS288.A49 C48 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chodat, Robert, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
- Consciousness in literature.
- Subjectivity in literature.
- Philosophy, Modern, in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 254 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction : French cathedrals and other forms of life
- Sense, science, and slight contacts with other people's minds
- Embodiment and the inside
- The prose of persons
- Selves, sentences, and the styles of holism
- Embodiment and the outside
- The culture and its loaded words
- Conclusion : person and presence, stories and theories.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801446788
- 0801446783
- OCLC:
- 181602171
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