| Making Figures: Reimagining Body, Sound, and Image in a World That Is Not for Us Contributor(s): Bromley, Bruce (Author) |
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ISBN: 1628970561 ISBN-13: 9781628970562 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| LCCN: 2013041809 |
| Series: Scholarly |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.75 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As species, and as a culture, we recognize ourselves by our capacity for possession, so that personhood is made equivalent to ownership. If, however, the way in which we imagine objects predisposes our behavior toward them, art can encourage us to reorder how we comport ourselves in a world that is not meant to be owned, that is not even meant for us. To frustrate the desolation of avarice, we must enrich our view of things, and "Making Figures" takes the reader through the writing of Virginia Woolf, both the fiction and the nonfiction, at the service of this imperative. |