On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart

On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection

Susan Stewart

232 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction art philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 n...

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