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The Redemption of Things
- Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism
Engelsk Paperback
The Redemption of Things
- Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism
Engelsk Paperback

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Collecting is usually understood as an activity that bestows permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise scattered and ephemeral objects. In The Redemption of Things, Samuel Frederick emphasizes that to collect things, however, always entails displacing, immobilizing, and potentially disfiguring them, too. He argues that the dispersal of objects, seemingly antithetical to the collector's task, is essential to the logic of gathering and preservation. Through analyses of collecting as a dialectical process of preservation and loss, The Redemption of Things illustrates this paradox by focusing on objects that challenge notions of collectability: ephemera, detritus, and trivialities such as moss, junk, paper scraps, dust, scent, and the transitory moment. In meticulous close readings of works by Gotthelf, Stifter, Keller, Rilke, Glauser, and Frisch, and by examining an experimental film by Oskar Fischinger, Frederick reveals how the difficulties posed by these fleeting, fragile, and forsaken objects help to reconceptualize collecting as a poetic activity that makes the world of scattered things uniquely palpable and knowable.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781501761560
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1501761560
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Udg. Dato:
15 jan 2022
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Cornell University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 jan 2022
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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