2 The Poetics of Things: Marianne Moore and Francis Ponge

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue 1
4. 1 Toys R Us: Legal Persons, Personal Pronouns, Definitions 3
5. Things
6. 2 The Poetics of Things: Marianne Moore and Francis Ponge 27
7. 3 Monuments 34
8. The Thingliness of Persons
9. 4 Ego Sum Game 47
10. 5 They Urn It 61
11. 6 Puppets and Prostheses 83
12. 7 Using People: Kant with Winnicott 94
13. The Personhood of Things
14. 8 Romancing the Stone 109
15. 9 Surmounted Beliefs 131
16. 10 Artificial Life 153
17. 11 Real Dolls 163
18. 12 Animation 168
19. Persons
20. 13 Face Value 179
21. 14 Anthropomorphism in Lyric and Law 188
22. 15 Lost Cause 208
23. Epilogue 229
24. Notes 235
25. Acknowledgments 251
26. Index 253