Stewart, Susan,  1952- <br/><br/>
On longing :  narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection / 
Susan Stewart. 
 - First paperback edition. 
 - xiv, 213 pages ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/> Originally published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1984. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-204) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0822313669 9780822313663 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>92040004 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Discourse analysis, Narrative<br/>Semiotics and literature
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P302.7  / .S68 1993 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808.00141