On longing : narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stewart, Susan, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1993.
Edition:1st paperback ed.
Subjects:
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Semiotics and literature.
Discours narratif.
Sémiotique et littérature.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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