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"Babette Tischleder's readings of texts are no less fresh and forceful than the topics those texts bring into focus: object agency, obsolescence, patina, and (magnificently) the recalcitrance of things. The book is a timely and important contribution to American Studies and to Object Studies both."
Bill Brown, author of "A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature"
Ob als Gefährten, Alter Egos oder Gegenspieler von Romanfiguren - die Welt der Dinge spielt in der amerikanischen Literatur eine wichtige Rolle. In Lektüren unterschiedlicher literarischer Prosatexte und ihrer historischen Kontexte zeigt Babette Bärbel Tischleder, wie Autorinnen und Autoren von Harriet Beecher Stowe bis Jonathan Franzen materielle Objekte sprachlich in Szene setzen. Ihre Diskussion neuerer theoretischer Ansätze zu Materialität und Dinglichkeit leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zum "material turn" in den Geisteswissenschaften. / Whether in the street or the microcosm of the home, the life of things conjoins human subjects and inanimate objects. Engaging a great range of American literature-from Harriet Beecher Stowe and Edith Wharton to Vladimir Nabokov and Jonathan Franzen-the book illuminates scenes of animation that disclose the aesthetic, affective, and ethical dimensions of our entanglement with the material world.
»Babette Tischleder's readings of texts are no less fresh and forceful than the topics those texts bring into focus: object agency, obsolescence, patina, and (magnificently) the recalcitrance of things. The book is a timely and important contribution to American Studies and to Object Studies both.«
Bill Brown, author of »A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature«
Ob als Gefährten, Alter Egos oder Gegenspieler von Romanfiguren - die Welt der Dinge spielt in der amerikanischen Literatur eine wichtige Rolle. In Lektüren unterschiedlicher literarischer Prosatexte und ihrer historischen Kontexte zeigt Babette Bärbel Tischleder, wie Autorinnen und Autoren von Harriet Beecher Stowe bis Jonathan Franzen materielle Objekte sprachlich in Szene setzen. Ihre Diskussion neuerer theoretischer Ansätze zu Materialität und Dinglichkeit leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zum »material turn« in den Geisteswissenschaften.
"Babette Tischleder's readings of texts are no less fresh and forceful than the topics those texts bring into focus: object agency, obsolescence, patina, and (magnificently) the recalcitrance of things. The book is a timely and important contribution to American Studies and to Object Studies both."
Bill Brown, author of "A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature"
Ob als Gefährten, Alter Egos oder Gegenspieler von Romanfiguren - die Welt der Dinge spielt in der amerikanischen Literatur eine wichtige Rolle. In Lektüren unterschiedlicher literarischer Prosatexte und ihrer historischen Kontexte zeigt Babette Bärbel Tischleder, wie Autorinnen und Autoren von Harriet Beecher Stowe bis Jonathan Franzen materielle Objekte sprachlich in Szene setzen. Ihre Diskussion neuerer theoretischer Ansätze zu Materialität und Dinglichkeit leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zum "material turn" in den Geisteswissenschaften. / Whether in the street or the microcosm of the home, the life of things conjoins human subjects and inanimate objects. Engaging a great range of American literature-from Harriet Beecher Stowe and Edith Wharton to Vladimir Nabokov and Jonathan Franzen-the book illuminates scenes of animation that disclose the aesthetic, affective, and ethical dimensions of our entanglement with the material world.
»Babette Tischleder's readings of texts are no less fresh and forceful than the topics those texts bring into focus: object agency, obsolescence, patina, and (magnificently) the recalcitrance of things. The book is a timely and important contribution to American Studies and to Object Studies both.«
Bill Brown, author of »A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature«
Ob als Gefährten, Alter Egos oder Gegenspieler von Romanfiguren - die Welt der Dinge spielt in der amerikanischen Literatur eine wichtige Rolle. In Lektüren unterschiedlicher literarischer Prosatexte und ihrer historischen Kontexte zeigt Babette Bärbel Tischleder, wie Autorinnen und Autoren von Harriet Beecher Stowe bis Jonathan Franzen materielle Objekte sprachlich in Szene setzen. Ihre Diskussion neuerer theoretischer Ansätze zu Materialität und Dinglichkeit leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zum »material turn« in den Geisteswissenschaften.
Abbreviations 9
Acknowledgements 11
Introduction: Lively Objects-Scenes of Animation and the American Literary Imagination 15
1. Sentimental Patina: The Ideal Ecology of Objects in Harriet Beecher Stowe's House and Home Papers 45
"The Ravages of a Carpet": Novelty vs. Tradition 48
The Culture of Things: Morality vs. Anthropology 51
Sentimental Possession: An Anthropological Perspective 55
A Domestic World of Animate Things: Stowe's Culture of Comfort 58
The Moral Lesson of Furniture: Against a World Robbed of Living Things 63
Criticism and Prospects 67
Sentimental Patina 71
2. Sacred Objects, Freakish Ornaments: Domestic Environmentalism in the Gilded Age 75
A Home Hallowed by Religion: Stowe's Parlor Piety 79
Horace Bushnell, Pierre Bourdieu, and Domestic Environmentalism 82
Christian Commodities 88
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Disenchanted Vision of Home 89
Expressive Things, Impressionable Children 91
Gothic Things and Literary Houses 94
Yellow Environments, Vicious Storytelling 97
Nerves and Decoration 101
Home Influence and Domestic Mythology in the Post-Darwinian Age 105
Mental Myopia: From the Sanctuary to the Coop 108
3. The Scent of Things: Edith Wharton, Modern Subjectivity, and the Anatomy of Taste 113
The Self in/as a Cluster of Things: Metonymy and Modern Subjectivity 120
The Flower in the Hothouse: Lily's Sensuous Nobility 126
The Scent of Things: Object Lessons and the Kinship of Taste 131
The Smell of Things 138
A Last Touch of Intimacy 148
4. Object Trouble: Thing Theory, Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin, and the American Tradition of Recalcitrant Matter 157
Thing Theory, Philosophy, Satire: From Existentialism to Resistentialism 166
"Look at the Darned Thing": Buster Keaton's One Week 174
Recalcitrance by Human Design 183
Pnin: The American Scene in the 1950s 186
Pninizing189
A Strange World of American Things 194
Matters of Affection197
Conclusion: Recalcitrance Revisited 204
5. The Thingness of the Text: Jonathan Franzen's Rhopography of Obsolescence 207
The Matter of Obsolescence 211
Realism and Rhopography 219
The Blue Chair and the Tangibility of Things 221
The Matter of Entropy 226
Cultural Wars and the Empire of the Ephemeral 231
Existential Obsolescence 235
Unloved Objects 240
Negative Authenticity-Abject Realness 243
The Cluttered Text 246
Lists as Literary Still Lifes 250
Epilogue: The Afterlife of Things 259
Bibliography 267
Primary Works 267
Art, Photography, Film269
Criticism and Theory 269
Index 285
/ ContentsAbbreviations 9
Acknowledgements 11
Introduction: Lively Objects-Scenes of Animation and the American Literary Imagination 15
1. Sentimental Patina: The Ideal Ecology of Objects in Harriet Beecher Stowe's House and Home Papers 45
"The Ravages of a Carpet": Novelty vs. Tradition 48
The Culture of Things: Morality vs. Anthropology 51
Sentimental Possession: An Anthropological Perspective 55
A Domestic World of Animate Things: Stowe's Culture of Comfort 58
The Moral Lesson of Furniture: Against a World Robbed of Living Things 63
Criticism and Prospects 67
Sentimental Patina 71
2. Sacred Objects, Freakish Ornaments: Domestic Environmentalism in the Gilded Age 75
A Home Hallowed by Religion: Stowe's Parlor Piety 79
Horace Bushnell, Pierre Bourdieu, and Domestic Environmentalism 82
Christian Commodities 88
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Disenchanted Vision of Home 89
Expressive Things, Impressionable Children 91
Gothic Things and Literary Houses 94
Yellow Environments, Vicious Storytelling 97
Nerves and Decoration 101
Home Influence and Domestic Mythology in the Post-Darwinian Age 105
Mental Myopia: From the Sanctuary to the Coop 108
3. The Scent of Things: Edith Wharton, Modern Subjectivity, and the Anatomy of Taste 113
The Self in/as a Cluster of Things: Metonymy and Modern Subjectivity 120
The Flower in the Hothouse: Lily's Sensuous Nobility 126
The Scent of Things: Object Lessons and the Kinship of Taste 131
The Smell of Things 138
A Last Touch of Intimacy 148
4. Object Trouble: Thing Theory, Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin, and the American Tradition of Recalcitrant Matter 157
Thing Theory, Philosophy, Satire: From Existentialism to Resistentialism 166
"Look at the Darned Thing": Buster Keaton's One Week 174
Recalcitrance by Human Design 183
Pnin: The American Scene in the 1950s 186
Pninizing189
A Strange World of American Things 194
Matters of Affection197
Conclusion: Recalcitrance Revisited 204
5. The Thingness of the Text: Jonathan Franzen's Rhopography of Obsolescence 207
The Matter of Obsolescence 211
Realism and Rhopography 219
The Blue Chair and the Tangibility of Things 221
The Matter of Entropy 226
Cultural Wars and the Empire of the Ephemeral 231
Existential Obsolescence 235
Unloved Objects 240
Negative Authenticity-Abject Realness 243
The Cluttered Text 246
Lists as Literary Still Lifes 250
Epilogue: The Afterlife of Things 259
Bibliography 267
Primary Works 267
Art, Photography, Film269
Criticism and Theory 269
Index 285
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik |
| Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 292 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9783593500065 |
| ISBN-10: | 359350006X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 50006 |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Großformatiges Paperback. Klappenbroschur |
| Einband: | Paperback |
| Autor: | Tischleder, Babette Bärbel |
| Hersteller: | Campus Verlag |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Beltz Verlagsgruppe GmbH & Co. KG, Werderstr. 10, D-69469 Weinheim, info@campus.de |
| Abbildungen: | 4 farbige und 2 sw Abb. |
| Maße: | 214 x 141 x 18 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Babette Bärbel Tischleder |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.06.2014 |
| Gewicht: | 0,386 kg |
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