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On Longing - Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (Paperback, New Ed)
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On Longing - Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (Paperback, New Ed)
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Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings,
tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse
group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating
analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to
animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally
published in 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press), and now
available in paperback for the first time, this highly original
book draws on insights from semiotics and from psychoanalytic,
feminist, and Marxist criticism. Addressing the relations of
language to experience, the body to scale, and narratives to
objects, Susan Stewart looks at the "miniature" as a metaphor for
interiority and at the "gigantic" as an exaggeration of aspects of
the exterior. In the final part of her essay Stewart examines the
ways in which the "souvenir" and the "collection" are objects
mediating experience in time and space.
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