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MICHAEL SLOANE From Volume XLIV, No. I, SEPTEMBER 2008. Excerpt: « Within the past 5 or 6 years there has been an increase in publications that are associated with the analysis of things—physical objects—in poetry and fiction, which is often referred to as 'object studies'. Although this may sound rather banal or rudimentary, thing-theory is a fascinating discourse that provides an idiosyncratic methodology for illuminating works due to its meticulous attention to the perception, representation, and role of things in relation to the subject-object dynamic. As Merleau-Ponty states, '[t]he thing is inseparable from a person perceiving it, and can never be actually in itself because its articulations are those of our very existence [...] every perception is a communication or a communion' [...] » | 
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