Main entry:

Stewart, Susan, 1952-

Title & Author:

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

Edition:

1st paperback ed.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1993.

Description:

xiv, 213 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
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 : the souvenir: The selfish ; Distance and intimacy ; Separation and restoration -- Object of desire : context destroyed: Inside and outside ; Metaconsumption : the female impersonator -- Conclusion/Litotes -- Notes

Summary:

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. -- Amazon.com.

ISBN:

0822313669 (paper)
9780822313663 (paper)

Subject:

Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Semiotics and literature.
Discours narratif.
Sémiotique et littérature.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253672
Call No.: BIB 183484
Status: Available