The Literary Life of Things: Case Studies in American Fiction - Couverture souple

Tischleder, Babette Barbel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 359350006X ISBN 13 : 9783593500065

Editeur : Campus Verlag, 2014

Synopsis

Whether in the street or the microcosm of the home, the life of things conjoins human subjects and inanimate objects. This material culture has long played a vital role in the American literary imagination, yet scholars in literary and cultural studies have only recently (re)discovered the object world as a subject of critical inquiry. Engaging a great range of American literature--from Harriet Beecher Stowe and Edith Wharton to Vladimir Nabokov and Jonathan Franzen--The Literary Life of Things illuminates scenes of animation that disclose the aesthetic, affective, and ethical dimensions of our entanglement with the material world.

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À propos de l'auteur

Babette Bärbel Tischleder is professor of North American studies at Göttingen University, Germany. She is author of Body Trouble: Entkörperlichung, Whiteness und das amerikanische Gegenwartskino.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Campus Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 359350006X
• ISBN 13: 9783593500065
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible