Worldly Acts and Sentient Things

by Robert Chodat

Ants, ghosts, cultures, thunderstorms, stock markets, robots, computers: this is just a partial list of the sentient things that have filled American literature over the last century. From modernism forward, writers have given life and voice to both the human and the nonhuman, and in the process addressed the motives, behaviors, and historical pressures that define lives--or things--both everyday and extraordinary.

In Worldly Acts and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801446783
• ISBN13: 9780801446788
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher