Objects in Italian life and culture : fiction, migration, and artificiality / Paolo Bartoloni.
This text makes visible the hidden relations between things and individuals through a discussion of creative processes and cultural practices. Italian life and culture are filled with objects that cross, accompany, facilitate or disrupt experience, desires, and dreams. Yet in spite of their ubiquity...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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Table of 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.