The Redemption of Things : : Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism / / Samuel Frederick.
Collecting is usually conceived as an activity that bestows permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise scattered and ephemeral objects. In The Redemption of Things, Samuel Frederick emphasizes that collecting things, however, necessarily involves displacing, immobilizing, and potentially disfigurin...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (348 p.) :; 5 b&w halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Theorizing Collecting
- Part I. Ephemera
- 2. Moss (Stifter)
- 3. The Photographic Instant (Fischinger)
- Part II. Catastrophic Detritus
- 4. Divine Debris (Gotthelf)
- 5. Maculature / Zettel (Frisch)
- Part III. Triviality
- 6. Junk and Containers (Keller)
- 7. Dust (Glauser)
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index