ISBN:
9781349948741
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (208 p)
Series Statement:
Italian and Italian American Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Bartoloni, Paolo Objects in Italian Life and Culture : Fiction, Migration, and Artificiality
DDC:
306.0945
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction -- In-Between Matter and Fantasy -- Disconnections, Forms of Creative Engagement, and the Atmospheric Turn -- Modernist Malaise and Postmodern Dissociation -- Place and Identity-Making in the Migrant Context -- Public Display and the Celebration of Hyphenated Lives -- Fantasizing the Authentic -- Notes -- CHAPTER 2: Meaningful Places -- Definition -- Freud and the "Oceanic" Feeling of Happiness -- Heidegger's Process of Inhabitation -- House or Home? -- Home and the Poetic of Inhabiting
Abstract:
Modernity and Objects: An Ambiguous Relation -- Simmel's Blasé and Marx's "Ontological Symmetry" -- The Crisis of Truth -- Atmospheres -- Notes -- CHAPTER 3: Fictional Objects -- Theoretical Introduction -- Thing Theory -- Things and/or Objects? -- Literary Objects: Italo Svevo -- Svevo's "Cosini": Breakages and Nausea -- La coscienza di Zeno and Its Devices -- Nature Versus Culture -- La coscienza di Zeno's Three Bodies/Objects -- The Female Body -- Zeno's Body -- The Body of Language -- The Cinema of Objects: Michelangelo Antonioni -- A Phenomenology of Vision
Abstract:
L'eclisse: A Disconnecting Connection -- Clusters of Silence -- The Eclipse of Meanings (… and Their Return) -- Blow-Up: Repetition and Enlargement -- The Collector -- Notes -- CHAPTER 4: Migrant Objects -- Reconstituting Place -- Belongings: An Exhibition -- New Colors -- Essential Objects: Embroidery Looms and Planting Tools -- Essential Objects: Photographs -- New Landscapes -- Language as the Object of Difference -- Accommodating a Disembodied Experience -- Notes -- CHAPTER 5: Multicultural and Transcultural Objects -- Some Definitions -- Multiculturalism -- Cosmopolitanism
Abstract:
Transnationalism -- Creolization -- Public Displays as Forms of Celebration: The Italian Forum in Sydney -- Translations and Replicas -- Objects of Celebration -- Musealizing the Object -- Interstitial Objects -- Inhabiting and Dwelling -- Polis and Civitas -- The Allure of Authenticity -- Notes -- CHAPTER 6: Objects as Props -- The City on Stage -- "Thinned Out Places" -- Spectacularizing Authenticity -- The Challenge of Ephemerality -- The Sicilia Outlet Village -- Notes -- CHAPTER 7: Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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