ISBN: 9781628970562 - making figures: reimagining body, sound, and image in a world that is not for us (dalkey archive scholarly) (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 211 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorBruce Bromley is senior lecturer in expository writing at New York University, where he won the 2006 Golden Dozen Award for teaching excellence. Bromley earned his BA from Columbia University, and his MA, MPhil, and Ph.