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Susan Stewart
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| #238740 in Books | 1992-12-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.74 x6.03l,.86 | File type: PDF | 232 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant|By Customer|Susan Stewart is a brilliant poet and scholar. This book focuses on how miniatures, collections, giant things, and souvenirs relate to the human body, and mental and emotional experience. Anyone interested in material culture, narratives, art, or philosophy should give it a read. Her writing, while more of an essay format, is in a very poetic style. She i||
"Stewart's work provides an oasis in contemporary criticism, a place where theory and poetry, systematic reflection and the essayistic plunge into particular cases, come together in a refreshing synthesis."—W. J. T. Mitchell
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 insigh...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection | Susan Stewart.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
