Making figures : reimagining Body, Sound, and Image in a World That Is Not for Us / Bruce Bromley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bromley, Bruce, author.

Series:

Special publication of the American Anthropological Association. Scholarly series

Scholarly series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Woolf, Virginia.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xv, 211 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Champaign, [Illinois] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2014.

Summary:

As a species, and as a culture, we recognize ourselves by our capacity for possession, so that personhood is made equivalent to ownership. If, however, the ways in which we imagine objects predisposes our behavior toward them, art can encourage us to reorder how we comport ourselves in a world that is not meant to be owned, that is not even meant for us. To frustrate the desolation of avarice, we must enrich our view of things, and Making Figures takes the reader through the writing of Virginia Woolf, both the fiction and the nonfiction, at the service of this imperative. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Keeping watch

The figure: between the mover and the moved

Sounding figures

Imaging figures

Afterword: Rethinking transcendence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781628970562

1628970561

OCLC:

863197618