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A sense of things : the object matter of American literature
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A sense of things : the object matter of American literature / Bill Brown.
ISBN
0226076288 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226076296 (pbk : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003.
Physical Description
xii, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 02, 2003
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The idea of things and the ideas in them
The tyranny of things
Fetishisms
Object lessons
A trivial thing
Democratic objects
The nature of things
Iteration
Creatures of habit
Possession
The miracle of history
Misuse value
Regional artifacts
Natural histories
Life-groups and the cultural thing
Material history
"A kind of fetichism"
Waste matter
Modernist archeology
The decoration of houses
Décor
The novel démeublé
Reification as utopia
Things to think with
Golden bowls
The death and life of things : modernity and modernism.
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