Worldly Acts and Sentient Things : : The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo / / Robert A. Chodat.
Ants, ghosts, cultures, thunderstorms, stock markets, robots, computers: this is just a partial list of the sentient things that have filled American literature over the last century. From modernism forward, writers have given life and voice to both the human and the nonhuman, and in the process add...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION: French Cathedrals and Other Forms of Life
- PART I: Agents Within
- CHAPTER 1. Sense, Science, and Slight Contacts with Other People's Minds
- CHAPTER 2. Embodiment and the Inside
- CHAPTER 3. The Prose of Persons
- PART II: Agents Without
- CHAPTER 4. Selves, Sentences, and the Styles of Holism
- CHAPTER 5. Embodiment and the Outside
- CHAPTER 6. The Culture and Its Loaded Words
- Conclusion: Person and Presence, Stories and Theories
- INDEX