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Worldly Acts and Sentient Things : The Persistence of Agency from Stein to Delillo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (270 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801462474
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Worldly Acts and Sentient ThingsDDC classification:
  • 810.9/384
LOC classification:
  • PS288.A49 -- C48 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- WORLDLY ACTS AND SENTIENT THINGS -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: French Cathedrals and Other Forms of Life -- PART ONE: 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 TWO: 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.
Summary: Chodat exposes a major shortcoming in recent accounts of twentieth-century discourse, arguing that what is often seen as the "death" of agency is better described as the displacement of agency onto new and varied entities.
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Cover -- WORLDLY ACTS AND SENTIENT THINGS -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: French Cathedrals and Other Forms of Life -- PART ONE: 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 TWO: 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.

Chodat exposes a major shortcoming in recent accounts of twentieth-century discourse, arguing that what is often seen as the "death" of agency is better described as the displacement of agency onto new and varied entities.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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