The Redemption of Things : Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism /

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Collecting is usually conceived as an activity that bestows permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise scattered and ephemeral objects. In The Redemption of Things, Samuel Frederick emphasizes that collecting things, however, necessarily involves displacing, immobilizing, and potentially disfigurin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Frederick, Samuel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2022]
Colección:Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Temas:
Collectors and collecting.
German literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
German literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Object (Aesthetics).
Film & Media Studies.
German Studies.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.
Collecting in literature, literature and the ephemeral, Vilem Flusser, logic of collecting, Oskar Fischinger, Jeremias Gotthelf.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Theorizing Collecting
  • Part I. Ephemera
  • 2. Moss (Stifter)
  • 3. The Photographic Instant (Fischinger)
  • Part II. Catastrophic Detritus
  • 4. Divine Debris (Gotthelf)
  • 5. Maculature / Zettel (Frisch)
  • Part III. Triviality
  • 6. Junk and Containers (Keller)
  • 7. Dust (Glauser)
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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