The Literary Life of Things

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The Literary Life of Things
Whether in the street or the microcosm of the home, the life of things conjoins human subjects and inanimate objects. Engaging a great range of American literature—from Harriet Beecher Stowe and Edith Wharton to Vladimir Nabokov and Jonathan Franzen—the book illuminates scenes of animation that disclose the aesthetic, affective, and ethical dimensions of our entanglement with the material world. »Babette Tischleder's readings of texts are no less fresh and forceful than the topics those texts bring into focus: object agency, obsolescence, patina, and (magnificently) the recalcitrance of things. The book is a timely and important contribution to American Studies and to Object Studies both.« Bill Brown, author of »A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature« Ob als Gefährten, Alter Egos oder Gegenspieler von Romanfiguren – die Welt der Dinge spielt in der amerikanischen Literatur eine wichtige Rolle. In Lektüren unterschiedlicher literarischer Prosatexte und ihrer historischen Kontexte zeigt Babette Bärbel Tischleder, wie Autorinnen und Autoren von Harriet Beecher Stowe bis Jonathan Franzen materielle Objekte sprachlich in Szene setzen. Ihre Diskussion neuerer theoretischer Ansätze zu Materialität und Dinglichkeit leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zum »material turn« in den Geisteswissenschaften.

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ISBN: 9783593500065

Language: English

Publication date: 13.02.2014

Number of pages: 292

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