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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"thing theory"”.
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"Trifles of value": Craft as communication in Victorian literature
… Schaffer's craft paradigm in connection with Thing theory, it is possible to make connections between the role of craft and identity, which in turn raises questions about craft and female agency. These connections to female agency illuminate tensions between craft and the economy, gender …
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Talking with ‘Things’ in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture
… recognise the agency and autonomy that nonhuman ’things’ have in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture. Drawing on a variety of sources (from dream-visions and riddles to stone sculpture and gospelbooks) it examines the relation between inscribed voices, bodies and early medieval artifacts, looking …
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'Of his breast noble poets shall eat; of his blood shall men be drunk': nationalism, literature, and Arthurian 'things' in medieval and Early Modern Britain
… nationalism, and new materialism – specifically thing theory and object-oriented ontology. Arthur was not a true historical figure, yet throughout much of British history his cultural and propagandist value has been immeasurable both to the ruling class and those who would rebel against it. The …
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Victorian Girls and At-home Theatricals: Performing and Playing with Possible Futures
… “utopian performatives” (2006); object and thing theory (Robin Bernstein 2011; Bill Brown 2001; Andrew Sofer 2003); feminist reinterpretations of Orientalism and connections between adolescence and race (Nancy Lesko 2012). The analysis demonstrates that playwrights used their scripts as …
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The Body, Touch and The Clay in Motion
… I discuss the view of the human body linked to thing theory, like an animator’s puppet or a prop, serving the large-scale system and playing a role in it. Furthermore, I explore allegory and its importance in translating the dissent with the regime in a way that allows for creative expression …
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All Joking Aside: The Role of Religion in American Jewish Satire
… then reading that pattern through Bill Brown's Thing Theory it becomes possible to talk about the motivations for and effects of the change over time in a new way. What the analysis revealed is that the third generation related to Judaism as a Thing, which in Brownian terms means it no longer …
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The Things That Remain: People, Objects, and Anxiety in Thirties British Fiction
<p>This dissertation analyzes the appeal of things in thirties British literature. I argue that in a time in which a catastrophic and world-changing war seemed to be on the way, many writers saw seemingly unshakable material things as a source of comfort. Drawing on thing theory, I explore thirties …
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Gramophonic Trauma: The Object as Cultural Mnemonic in Irish Literature
… mediates the links between media studies and “thing theory.” By making a distinction between the gramophone as an instrument (through which we access or hear a recording) and the gramophone as a "thing" (an object which draws attention to itself by not behaving as expected, thereby forcing us …
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Women's wit on stage, 1660-1720
… by a variety of approaches such as feminist theory, performance, new materialism, including thing theory and affect theory. Alongside literary analysis of women’s wit in drama by male and female playwrights, I consider the various nuances of the term ‘wit’ across the period using the tool …
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The assembled body: Anatomical enumeration and embodiment in Anglo-Saxon devotional texts
"""The Assembled Body: Anatomical Enumeration and Embodiment in Anglo-Saxon Devotional Texts"" argues that Anglo-Saxon Christians viewed the material body as a potent site for spiritual transformation. This notion finds its fullest expression in the rhetorical scheme of anatomical enumeration which …
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Object lessons: technologies of education in British literature, 1762-1851
… called “object learning” or “the education of things.” Denouncing rote-learning in favor of an induction method, object lessons promised to coordinate the development of body and mind by using the pupil’s sense exploration of physical surroundings as a catalyst for higher cognitive thought. I …