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Object Lessons
Object Lessons may refer to: * Object Lessons (book series), an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things * Object Lessons (novel), a 1991 novel by Anna Quindlen * Object lesson, a teaching method that consists of using a physical object or visual aid {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Object Lessons (book Series)
Object Lessons is "an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things". Each of the essays (2,000 words) and the books (25,000 words) investigate a single object through a variety of approaches that often reveal something unexpected about that object. As stated in the Object Lessons webpage, "Each Object Lessons project will start from a specific inspiration: an anthropological query, ecological matter, archeological discovery, historical event, literary passage, personal narrative, philosophical speculation, technological innovation—and from there develop original insights and novel lessons about the object in question." In 2023, it was announced that the series was now based in the Program in Public Scholarship in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and will publish its 100th book in the series. Series publishers * ''The Atlantic'' * Bloomsbury Publishing Series editors * Ian Bogost – Washington University in St. Louis, formerly Georgi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Object Lessons (novel)
''Object Lessons'' () is the first novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and journalist Anna Quindlen. First published in 1991, the book is a coming-of-age story centering on 13-year-old Maggie Scanlan, the youngest child of the powerful Scanlan clan. Quindlen described it as "a young person's novel." The title is drawn from the phrase " object lesson," a teaching method. Plot ''Object Lessons'' centers on the Scanlan family, who live in New York. The family patriarch, John Scanlan, a conservative Irish man, has amassed a considerable fortune from manufacturing religious items like communion wafers and rosaries. John's son, Tommy Scanlan, has married Connie, a caretaker of a cemetery. As Connie is Italian and otherwise an outsider, the elder Scanlan family resents the marriage. Attempting to bring Maggie's parents back into the fold, John offers Tommy a house near him in Westchester County, and the family moves there from The Bronx. As Maggie turns 13, events transpire in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |