Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 188 p)
Edition:
2014
ISBN:
9781501312397
,
9781501312373
,
9781501312380
Uniform Title:
Feticci
Content:
"Object fetishism is becoming a more and more pervasive phenomenon. Focusing on literature and the visual arts, including cinema, this book suggests a parallelism between fetishism and artistic creativity, based on a poetics of detail, which has been brilliantly exemplified by Flaubert's style. After exploring canonical accounts of fetishism (Marx, Freud, Benjamin), by combining a historicist approach with theoretical speculation, Massimo Fusillo identifies a few interpretive patterns of object fetishism, such as seduction (from Apollonius of Rhodes to Max Ophüls), memory activation (from Goethe to Louise Bourgeois and Pamuk), and the topos of the animation of the inanimate. Whereas all these patterns are characterized by a projection of emotional values onto objects, modernism highlights a more latent component of object fetishism: the fascination with the alterity of matter, variously inflected by Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Barnes, and Mann. The last turning point in Fusillo's analysis is postmodernism and its obsession with mass media icons--from DeLillo's maximalist frescos and Zadie Smith's reflections on autographs to Palahniuk's porn objects; from pop art to commodity sculpture."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501312359
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501312366
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fusillo, Massimo, 1959 - The fetish New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017 ISBN 9781501312359
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Fetisch
;
Fetischismus
;
Literatur
;
Künste
;
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781501312397
