On longing : narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection /
Stewart, Susan, 1952-
On longing : narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection / Susan Stewart. - First paperback edition. - xiv, 213 pages ; 23 cm
Originally published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1984.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-204) and index.
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. Part 1. The souvenir. The selfish ; Distance and intimacy ; Separation and restoration -- Object of desire, Part 2. Context destroyed ; Inside and outside ; Metaconsumption: the female impersonator -- Conclusion/Litotes -- Notes.
0822313669 9780822313663
92040004
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Semiotics and literature
P302.7 / .S68 1993
808.00141
On longing : narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection / Susan Stewart. - First paperback edition. - xiv, 213 pages ; 23 cm
Originally published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1984.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-204) and index.
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. Part 1. The souvenir. The selfish ; Distance and intimacy ; Separation and restoration -- Object of desire, Part 2. Context destroyed ; Inside and outside ; Metaconsumption: the female impersonator -- Conclusion/Litotes -- Notes.
0822313669 9780822313663
92040004
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Semiotics and literature
P302.7 / .S68 1993
808.00141