%0 Journal Article
%T The Republic of Objects: Prolegomena to an Object-Oriented Reading of A Tour on the Prairies
%A Mikado
%A Naruhiko
%J -
%D 2019
%X Sa£¿etak This article has two purposes. First, it attempted to introduce ¡®flat ontology¡¯ and ¡®withdrawal¡¯, two of many concepts of object-oriented ontology (OOO), as effective intellectual devices to dissect a literary text, especially in order to investigate the complexity of contacts between/among various existences on a horizontal surface. Second, it examined how the narrator of A Tour on the Prairies, one of the underappreciated texts of Washington Irving, gradually begins to doubt the naive human/nonhuman binary and broadens his horizons through an encounter with another object, wild bees in this case. In conclusion, it demonstrated that, when read from an object-oriented outlook, this text proved to offer a rich world in which every single object acts and exists on its own right, and thus to entice its readers to rethink humans¡¯ position within the ¡®republic of objects¡¯
%K Literary Criticism
%K American Literature
%K Washington Irving
%K A Tour on the Prairies
%K Object-Oriented Ontology
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