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On Longing : Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection /

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...

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Autor principal: Stewart, Susan, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1993.
Edición:1st paperback ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a On description and the book: Stlll life ; The sadness without an object ; Interior decorations ; Space of language -- The miniature: Micrographia ; Tableau : the miniature described ; The secret life of things ; The dollhouse ; Miniature time -- The gigantic: Skywriting : exteriority and nature ; Exteriority : the city ; The gigantic described ; The lie : gigiantism in language -- The imaginary body: The grotesque body ; The body made miniature ; The Tom Thumb wedding ; Reading the body -- Object of desire : the souvenir: The selfish ; Distance and intimacy ; Separation and restoration -- Object of desire : context destroyed: Inside and outside ; Metaconsumption : the female impersonator -- Conclusion/Litotes -- Notes. 
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