 | Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Agent (Philosophy) in literature; Consciousness in literature; Subjectivity in literature; Philosophy Modern in literature; Chodat exposes a major shortcoming in recent accounts of twentieth-century discourse, arguing that what is often seen as the "death" of agency is better described as the displacement of agency onto new and varied entities. Robert Chodat is Assistant Professor of English at Boston University. |
