TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Barbara
TI  - Persons and things /Barbara Johnson
SN  - 9780674056534
AV  - PN49 .P477 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass., London
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Literature
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Human beings in literature
KW  - Object (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Originally published: 2008; 2; Toys R us: legal persons, Personal pronouns, definitions --; The poetics of things: Marianne Moore and Francis Ponge --; Monuments --; Ego sum game --; The urn it --; Puppets and prostheses --; Using people: Kant with Winnicott --; Romancing the stone --; Surmounted beliefs --; Artificial life --; Real dolls --; Animation --; Face value --; Anthropomorphism in lyric and law --; Lost cause; 2; b
N2  - "In Persons and Things, Johnson turns deconstruction around to make a fundamental contribution to the new aesthetics. She begins with the most elementary thing we know: deconstruction calls attention to gaps and reveals that their claims upon us are fraudulent. Johnson revolutionizes the method by showing that the inanimate thing exposed as a delusion is central to fantasy life, that fantasy life, however deluded, should be taken seriously, and that although a work of art "is formed around something missing," this "void is its vanishing point, not its essence." She shows that the void inside Keats's urn, Heidegger's jug, or Wallace Stevens's jar forms the center around which we tend to organize our worlds."--Jacket
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