On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
On Longing examines the cultural and imaginative meanings attached to the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, and the collection. Susan Stewart considers how scale, memory, objects, and acts of gathering create narratives of longing and shape the ways people understand experience.
About This Book
On Longing explores narratives organized around the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, and the collection.
Susan Stewart considers how differences of scale and forms of keeping can express longing and shape meaning.
The book brings together literary and cultural reflection on objects, memory, representation, and desire.
Its subject is the imaginative and interpretive significance of things made small, made large, saved, and gathered.
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