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

摘要: Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism nostalgia: this diverse group cultural forms is the subject On Longing, a fascinating analysis ways in which everyday are narrated to animate or realize certain versions world. Originally published 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press), now available paperback for first time, highly original book draws on insights from semiotics psychoanalytic, feminist, Marxist criticism. Addressing relations language experience, body scale, narratives objects, Susan Stewart looks at "miniature" as metaphor interiority "gigantic" an exaggeration aspects exterior. In final part her essay examines "souvenir" "collection" mediating experience time space.