On Longing: Narratives Of The Miniature, The Gigantic, The Souvenir, The Collection
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| Originally published | 1984 |
| Authors | Susan Stewart |
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| ID | 2451963 |
About On Longing: Narratives Of The Miniature, The Gigantic, The Souvenir, The Collection
Miniature 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 On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. . . .