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035			_a(OCoLC)1091699952
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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aChodat, Robert A. _eautore
245	1	0	_aWorldly Acts and Sentient Things : _bThe Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo / _cRobert A. Chodat.
264		1	_aIthaca, NY : _bCornell University Press, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©2011
300			_a1 online resource (272 p.)
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- _tABBREVIATIONS -- _tINTRODUCTION: French Cathedrals and Other Forms of Life -- _tPART I: Agents Within -- _tCHAPTER 1. Sense, Science, and Slight Contacts with Other People's Minds -- _tCHAPTER 2. Embodiment and the Inside -- _tCHAPTER 3. The Prose of Persons -- _tPART II: Agents Without -- _tCHAPTER 4. Selves, Sentences, and the Styles of Holism -- _tCHAPTER 5. Embodiment and the Outside -- _tCHAPTER 6. The Culture and Its Loaded Words -- _tConclusion: Person and Presence, Stories and Theories -- _tINDEX
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aAnts, ghosts, cultures, thunderstorms, stock markets, robots, computers: this is just a partial list of the sentient things that have filled American literature over the last century. From modernism forward, writers have given life and voice to both the human and the nonhuman, and in the process addressed the motives, behaviors, and historical pressures that define lives—or things—both everyday and extraordinary.In Worldly Acts and Sentient Things Robert Chodat exposes a major shortcoming in recent accounts of twentieth-century discourse. What is often seen as the "death" of agency is better described as the displacement of agency onto new and varied entities. Writers as diverse as Gertrude Stein, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, and Don DeLillo are preoccupied with a cluster of related questions. Which entities are capable of believing something, saying something, desiring, hoping, hating, or doing? Which things, in turn, do we treat as worthy of our care, respect, and worship?Drawing on a philosophical tradition exemplified by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Wilfrid Sellars, Chodat shows that the death of the Cartesian ego need not entail the elimination of purposeful action altogether. Agents do not dissolve or die away in modern thought and literature; they proliferate—some in human forms, some not. Chodat distinguishes two ideas of agency in particular. One locates purposes in embodied beings, "persons," the other in disembodied entities, "presences." Worldly Acts and Sentient Things is a an engaging blend of philosophy and literary theory for anyone interested in modern and contemporary literature, narrative studies, psychology, ethics, and cognitive science.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650		0	_aAgent (Philosophy) in literature.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xHistory and criticism _y20th century.
650		0	_aConsciousness in literature.
650		0	_aSubjectivity in literature.
650		4	_aLiterary Studies.
650		4	_aPhilosophy.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9780801462474
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801462474
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