Blanket

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, B ket 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.

Product details

• Authors: Kara Thompson, Kara (College of William and Mary Thompson, Thompson Kara
• Assisted by: Ian Bogost (Editor), Christopher Schaberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.09.2018
• EAN: 9781628922653
• ISBN: 978-1-62892-265-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 164 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Object Lessons; Object Lessons
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion; Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary theory