Object Lessons: Blanket

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 192 pages

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic USA

ISBN:9781628922653

Published:20 Sep 2018

Weight:178g

Dimensions:123 x 164 x 13 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《实例研究》系列内容简短，设计精美，探索生活中常见物件的鲜为人知的故事，激励我们重新审视日常生活中我们习以为常的事物。

我们一诞生下来，就被毯子包裹着。我们死去的时候，也是被毯子盖着。晚上睡觉或者生病的时候，离不开毯子。他们在哀悼的时候给予保护安慰，并见证最亲密的欢乐。

世界各地都能发现毯子的身影：电影，艺术，地质学，灾难，战场，反抗，家庭。卡拉·汤普森（Kara Thompson）将普通物件转变成充满活力的故事和秘密载体，作为继承和归属的对象，是发掘的伴侣。

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

We are born into blankets. They keep us alive and they cover us in death. We pull and tug on blankets to see us through the night or an illness. They shield us in mourning and witness our most intimate pleasures.

Curious, fearless, vulnerable, and critical, Blanket interweaves cultural critique with memoir to cast new light on a ubiquitous object. Kara Thompson reveals blankets everywhere--film, art, geology, disasters, battlefields, resistance, home--and transforms an ordinary thing into a vibrant and vital carrier of stories and secrets, an object of inheritance and belonging, a companion to uncover.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.

目录

A Note to the Reader

Preface: Convolute

Unfold 1

1. Witness

Unfold 2

2. Folds

Unfold 3

3. Transmission, Extraction

Unfold 4

4. Security

Unfold 5

5. Under Cover

Unfold 6

6. Carriers

Unfold 7

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

List of Figures

Index

作者简介

Kara Thompson is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies, College of William and Mary, USA. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly, and the Atlantic.