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Worldly acts and sentient things : the persistence of agency from Stein to DeLillo /

"In Worldly Acts and Sentient Things Robert Chodat exposes a major shortcoming in recent accounts of twentieth-century discourse. What is often seen as the "death" of agency is better described as the displacement of agency onto new and varied entities." "Worldly Acts and Se...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chodat, Robert, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : French cathedrals and other forms of life
  • Sense, science, and slight contacts with other people's minds
  • Embodiment and the inside
  • The prose of persons
  • Selves, sentences, and the styles of holism
  • Embodiment and the outside
  • The culture and its loaded words
  • Conclusion : person and presence, stories and theories.