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The Literary Life of Things: Case Studies in American Fiction (North American Studies)
Babette Bärbel Tischleder
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Paperback. Contemplating the aesthetic and narrative forms of material life in American fiction as well as theoretical concepts of materiality, this book looks at renewed attention to the physical world within the humanities and social sciences, variously designated as new materialism or the material turn. Series: North American Studies. Num Pages: 300 pages, 7 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Contemplating the aesthetic and narrative forms of material life in American fiction as well as theoretical concepts of materiality, The Literary Life of Things looks at renewed attention to the physical world within the humanities and social sciences, variously designated as new materialism or the material turn. Setting out from the observation that objects have a much-neglected life in fiction, Babette Barbel Tischleder aims to bring scenes of animation to the forefront and, by focusing on the trajectories of inanimate things, to ask how human aspirations, fantasies, practices, memories, and self-concepts rely upon the object world in American literature and ... Read more
Contemplating the aesthetic and narrative forms of material life in American fiction as well as theoretical concepts of materiality, The Literary Life of Things looks at renewed attention to the physical world within the humanities and social sciences, variously designated as new materialism or the material turn. Setting out from the observation that objects have a much-neglected life in fiction, Babette Barbel Tischleder aims to bring scenes of animation to the forefront and, by focusing on the trajectories of inanimate things, to ask how human aspirations, fantasies, practices, memories, and self-concepts rely upon the object world in American literature and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Campus Verlag
Condition
New
Series
North American Studies
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Frankfurt, Germany
ISBN
9783593500065
SKU
V9783593500065
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About Babette Bärbel Tischleder
Babette Barbel Tischleder is professor of North American studies at Gottingen University, Germany.
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