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Other Things

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Description for Other Things Hardcover. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
From the pencil to the puppet to the drone-the humanities continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? In Other Things, Bill Brown explores this question by considering an assortment of objects-from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers-that have fascinated a range of writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don DeLillo. Brown ranges across the literary, visual, and plastic arts to depict the curious lives of things. Beginning ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
745g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226076652
SKU
V9780226076652
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Ref
99-1

About Bill Brown
Bill Brown is the Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture at the University of Chicago and a coeditor of Critical Inquiry. He is the author of several books, including A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews for Other Things
In publishing, there is a difference between making a splash and actually making waves. Brown's work has done both. He opens his lens this time to a wide array of aesthetic and cultural objects from indigenous ethnographic sculpture to the kitsch memorabilia of 9/11. Along the way, there are readings devoted to material objects in canonical literature and more popular ... Read more

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