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On longing : narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection / Susan Stewart.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1993Edition: First paperback editionDescription: xiv, 213 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0822313669
  • 9780822313663
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.00141 23
LOC classification:
  • P302.7 .S68 1993
Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 808.00141 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A290993B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 808.00141 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A430215B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 808.00141 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A430214B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 808.00141 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A517225B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 808.00141 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A517224B

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.

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