caa a22 4500 463200373 CHVBK 20180405153110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-007-9027-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-007-9027-2 Eykman Christoph Department of German Studies, Boston College, 02467-3800, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA aut Alltägliche Dinge im philosophischen und literarischen Schrifttum der Moderne [Elektronische Daten] [Christoph Eykman] Ever since Rilke, modern writers, philosophers, and artists have increasingly turned their attention to commonplace, inconspicuous objects, whether man-made or not (Ponge, Robbe-Grillet, Handke, collages, assemblages, entassements, Pop Art, junk art etc.) Roger-Pol Droit, philosopher and essayist, analyzes the meaning of commonplace things we use as to their deeper significance for the human user (Derrières nouvelles des choses [2003]) whereas Roger Caillois attempts in several texts to read and interpret the␣hieroglyphs and quasi-mimetic images exhibited by the cut surface of minerals as mysterious messages about the universe. The German writer Klaus Luttringer (Die Rückkehr der Steine [1999]) sees simple rocks as witnesses of an archaic age in which humans lived a happier pre-rational and pre-civilized life. He hopes for a new era, the "return of the stones”. Finally, Virginia Woolf, in her story Solid Objects (1921) writes about a man whose encounter and obsession with worthless small objects induces him to abandon his career and his life as a member of a modern Western industrial society. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Commonplace objects in literature nationallicence Neophilologus Springer Netherlands 91/4(2007-10-01), 673-685 0028-2677 91:4<673 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9027-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9027-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Eykman Christoph Department of German Studies, Boston College, 02467-3800, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Springer Netherlands 91/4(2007-10-01), 673-685 0028-2677 91:4<673 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer