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

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"This book locates the paradoxical process of collecting (as an activity that necessarily involves displacement and dispersal) in the ways nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-language literature (and in one case, cinema) attempts to represent ephemeral, discarded, and trivial things"-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frederick, Samuel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Object (Aesthetics)
German literature.
Collectors and collecting.
German literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
German literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Theorizing collecting
  • Moss (Stifter)
  • The photographic instant (Fischinger)
  • Divine debris (Gotthelf)
  • Maculature / Zettel (Frisch)
  • Junk and containers (Keller)
  • Dust (Glauser)

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