Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric

by Daniel Tiffany

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What begins with an unlikely collection of unrelated phenomena--mechanical dolls, weather, atoms, lyric poetry--blossoms in the course of Toy Medium into a subtle and persuasive meditation on one of Western philosophy's biggest puzzles: the relation of mind and matter. What is the role of the imagination in defining material substance? In a dazzling study of the poetics of materialist philosophy and of the materialism of lyric poetry, Daniel Tiffany...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520219228

ISBN13:9780520219229

Release Date:March 2000

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:351 Pages

Weight:1.34 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences

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