The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects
By (Author) Peter Schwenger
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st March 2006
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
121.34
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 13mm
Description
Concerned in part with the act of collecting, The Tears of Things is itself a collection of exemplary art objects literary and cultural attempts to control and possess things. However, these representations of objects perpetually fall short of our aspirations. Schwenger examines what is left overdebris and wasteand asks what art can make of these.
Author Bio
Peter Schwenger is professor of English at Mount St. Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual Envisioning, Letter Bomb: Nuclear Holocaust and the Exploding Word, and Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Literature.
