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...

詳細記述

書誌詳細
第一著者: Lamb, Jonathan
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2011.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1mjqtj9
目次:
  • 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.