{"product_id":"on-longing-narratives-of-the-miniature-the-gigantic-the-souvenir-the-collection-paperback","title":"On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Stewart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of \u003ci\u003eOn Longing\u003c\/i\u003e, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally published in 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press), and now available in paperback for the first time, this highly original book draws on insights from semiotics and from psychoanalytic, feminist, and Marxist criticism. Addressing the relations of language to experience, the body to scale, and narratives to objects, Susan Stewart looks at the \"miniature\" as a metaphor for interiority and at the \"gigantic\" as an exaggeration of aspects of the exterior. In the final part of her essay Stewart examines the ways in which the \"souvenir\" and the \"collection\" are objects mediating experience in time and space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe historical richness, psychological insight and sociological subtlety of the analyses Stewart develops in On Longing\" are exemplary for cultural studies.\"--Barbara Herrnstein Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Stewart, Professor of English at Temple University, is the author of \u003ci\u003eCrimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9 x 6.03 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 19, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450127270066,"sku":"9780822313663","price":43.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/82b0eb019e132ef71cc626c83934ff7a.webp?v=1778781038","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/on-longing-narratives-of-the-miniature-the-gigantic-the-souvenir-the-collection-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}