The Things Things Say
One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things such as coins, coaches, clothes, animals, or insects. This is an ambitious new account of the context in which these "it narratives" became so popular. What does it me...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2011.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1mjqtj9 |
Obsah:
- Property, personification, and idols. Owning things
- The crying of lost things
- Making babies in the South Seas
- The growth of idols
- The rape of the lock as still life
- Persons and fictions. Locke's wild fancies
- Fictionality and the representation of persons
- Authors and nonpersons. Me and my ink
- Things as authors
- Authors owning nothing.