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Kreienbrock, Jorg

 
9780823245284: Malicious Objects, Anger Management, and the Question of Modern Literature
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ISBN 10: 0823245284 ISBN 13: 9780823245284
Casa editrice: Fordham Univ Pr, 2012

Sinossi

Why do humans get angry with objects? Why is it that a malfunctioning computer, a broken tool, or a fallen glass causes an outbreak of fury? How is it possible to speak of an inanimate object’s recalcitrance, obstinacy, or even malice? When things assume a will of their own and seem to act out against human desires and wishes rather than disappear into automatic, unconscious functionality, the breakdown is experienced not as something neutral but affectively—as rage or as outbursts of laughter. Such emotions are always psychosocial: public, rhetorically performed, and therefore irreducible to a “private” feeling.

By investigating the minutest details of life among dysfunctional household items through the discourses of philosophy and science, as well as in literary works by Laurence Sterne, Jean Paul, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, and Heimito von Doderer, Kreienbrock reconsiders the modern bourgeois poetics that render things the way we know and suffer them.

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Jörg Kreienbrock is Assistant Professor of German at Northwestern University.

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Editore
Fordham Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0823245284
ISBN 13 
9780823245284
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
313
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