Objects in Italian life and culture : fiction, migration, and artificiality /: fiction, migration, and artificiality. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Paolo Bartoloni.
• Authors: Bartoloni, Paolo
• Contents: 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; 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; L'eclisse: A€Disconnecting Connection; Clusters of€Silence; The Eclipse of€Meanings (& and€Their Return). Blow-Up: Repetition and€EnlargementThe 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; Transnationalism; Creolization; Public Displays as€Forms of€Celebration: The€Italian Forum in€Sydney; Translations and€Replicas; Objects of€Celebration. Musealizing the€ObjectInterstitial 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 203 pages)
• Subjects: 111.85; Object (Aesthetics); Object (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics; Object (Aesthetics); Object (Philosophy); Sachkultur; Italienbild; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General; Social Science -- General; Films, cinema; Cultural studies; Italien; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781349948758; 1349948756; 1349948748; 9781349948741
• Related ISBNs: 9781349948741
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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