T�tulo: Malicious Objects, Anger Management, and the Question of Modern Literature
Editor: Modern Language Initiative
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2012
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 0823245292
ISBN 13: 9780823245291
Encuadernaci�n: Encuadernaci�n de tapa blanda
Edici�n: 1� Edici�n
Estado: Used - Very Good

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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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Jorg Kreienbrock is Associate Professor of German at Northwestern University.

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