TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stewart,Susan
TI  - On longing: narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection 
SN  - 0822313669
AV  - P302.7 .S68 1993
U1  - 808.00141 23
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Discourse analysis, Narrative
KW  - Semiotics and literature
N1  - 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
ER  -