Worldly acts and sentient things
Subtitle: the persistence of agency from Stein to DeLillo
By: Robert Chodat.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780801446788
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Agent (Philosophy) in literature; Consciousness in literature; Subjectivity in literature; Philosophy, Modern, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : French cathedrals and other forms of life; title: Sense, science, and slight contacts with other people's minds; title: Embodiment and the inside; title: The prose of persons; title: Selves, sentences, and the styles of holism; title: Embodiment and the outside; title: The culture and its loaded words; title: Conclusion : person and presence, stories and theories.