TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kreienbrock,Jörg
TI  - Malicious Objects, Anger Management, and the Question of Modern Literature
SN  - 9780823245284
U1  - 809/.93353 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - Anger in literature
KW  - Anger
KW  - Emotions in literature
KW  - Emotions
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Philosophy & Theory
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Agency
KW  - German Literature
KW  - Humor
KW  - Network-Actor Theory
KW  - Phenomenology
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Technology of the Self
KW  - Thing Theory
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. “When Things Move upon Bad Hinges” --; 2. Annoying Bagatelles --; 3. Malicious Objects --; 4. Igniting Anger --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Why do humans get angry with objects? Why is it that a malfunctioning computer, a broken tool, or a fallen glass causes an outbreak of fury? How is it possible to speak of an inanimate object’s recalcitrance, obstinacy, or even malice? When things assume a will of their own and seem to act out against human desires and wishes rather than disappear into automatic, unconscious functionality, the breakdown is experienced not as something neutral but affectively—as rage or as outbursts of laughter. Such emotions are always psychosocial: public, rhetorically performed, and therefore irreducible to a “private” feeling.By investigating the minutest details of life among dysfunctional household items through the discourses of philosophy and science, as well as in literary works by Laurence Sterne, Jean Paul, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, and Heimito von Doderer, Kreienbrock reconsiders the modern bourgeois poetics that render things the way we know and suffer them
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823245314
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823245314
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823245314/original
ER  -