Worldly Acts and Sentient Things : The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chodat, Robert, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
Agens.
Subjectivite > Dans la litterature.
Agent (philosophie) > Dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Semantik
Literatur
Agens
Subjectivity in literature.
Philosophy, Modern, in literature.
Consciousness in literature.
American literature.
Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Subjectivite dans la litterature.
Conscience dans la litterature.
Agent (Philosophie) dans la litterature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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