Chodat, Robert A. <br/><br/>
Worldly Acts and Sentient Things :  The Persistence of Agency from Stein to Delillo. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (270 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801462474 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.<br/>Agent (Philosophy) in literature.<br/>Consciousness in literature.<br/>Subjectivity in literature.<br/>Philosophy, Modern, in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS288.A49 -- C48 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9/384