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On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
Susan Stewart
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Description for On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
Paperback. An analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392. Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. 232 pages, illustrations. An analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HP. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight: 390.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822313663
SKU
V9780822313663
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About Susan Stewart
Susan Stewart, Professor of English at Temple University, is the author of Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation and Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature.
Reviews for On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
"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 "The historical richness, psychological insight and sociological subtlety of the analyses Stewart develops in On Longing are exemplary for cultural studies."—Barbara Herrnstein Smith