Richardson, Catherine (2014) Written texts and the performance of materiality. In: Riello, Giorgio and Gerritsen, Anne, eds. Writing Material Culture History. Bloomsbury, London. ISBN 978-1-4725-1856-9. (KAR id:51354)
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Abstract
This chapter aims to indicate the various ways that historians can analyse how language conjures things into being. It shows that a detailed analysis of words can investigate the role played by language as the medium in which information about objects is communicated. It argues that reading about things always involves some kind of call to the imagination of the reader – obviously on the stage, but also in the archive. In our perception of the significance of the relationship between words and things, reading is, it is argued, a kind of performance of objects in itself; a reanimation of the relationship between language, materiality and the imagination.
Item Type: | Book section |
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Subjects: |
D History General and Old World P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English |
Depositing User: | Catherine Richardson |
Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2015 18:39 UTC |
Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2021 08:29 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/51354 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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