TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chodat,Robert A.
TI  - Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to Delillo
SN  - 9780801462474
AV  - PS288.A49 -- C48 2008eb 
U1  - 810.9/384 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Agent (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - Consciousness in literature
KW  - Subjectivity in literature
KW  - Philosophy, Modern, in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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