LEADER 03457nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910820690803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-4531-4 010 $a0-8232-5072-5 010 $a0-8232-5051-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823245314 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275483 035 $a(EBL)3239770 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756292 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11494939 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756292 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10750843 035 $a(PQKB)11753378 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000124817 035 $a(OCoLC)820632040 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19469 035 $a(DE-B1597)554999 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823245314 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239770 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10611586 035 $a(OCoLC)923763800 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4704524 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239770 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1107656 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704524 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275483 100 $a20120801d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMalicious objects, anger management, and the question of modern literature /$fJorg Kreienbrock 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (323 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-4529-2 311 $a0-8232-4528-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [279]-303) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: how (not) to do things with doors -- "When things move upon bad hinges": Sterne and stoicism -- Annoying bagatelles: Jean Paul and the comedy of the quotidian -- Malicious objects: Friedrich Theodor Vischer and the (non)functionality of things -- Igniting anger: Heimito von Doderer and the psychopathology of everyday rage. 330 $aWhy 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. 606 $aAnger 606 $aEmotions 606 $aAnger in literature 606 $aEmotions in literature 615 0$aAnger. 615 0$aEmotions. 615 0$aAnger in literature. 615 0$aEmotions in literature. 676 $a809/.93353 700 $aKreienbrock$b Jorg$f1969-$01647784 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820690803321 996 $aMalicious objects, anger management, and the question of modern literature$93995556 997 $aUNINA