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The fetish : literature, cinema, visual art

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Italian Publisher: New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017Description: 1 online resource (xii, 188 pages)ISBN:
  • 9781501312359 (hardback)
  • 9781501312397
  • 1501312391
Uniform titles:
  • Feticci. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN56.F47 F8713 2017
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Contents:
Preface: Creativity Is In the Details -- Introduction: Object and Fetish: Theory, Intersection, Vision -- 1. The Object of Seduction -- 2. The Memorial Object: Between Wound and Catharsis -- 3. The Magic Object: Animating the Inanimate -- 4. Creating Worlds: The Mythopoetic Power of Objects -- 5. Theatricalizing the Fetish-Object -- 6. The Alterity of Matter -- 7. The Object-Icon -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "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 Ophuls), 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: Creativity Is In the Details -- Introduction: Object and Fetish: Theory, Intersection, Vision -- 1. The Object of Seduction -- 2. The Memorial Object: Between Wound and Catharsis -- 3. The Magic Object: Animating the Inanimate -- 4. Creating Worlds: The Mythopoetic Power of Objects -- 5. Theatricalizing the Fetish-Object -- 6. The Alterity of Matter -- 7. The Object-Icon -- Bibliography -- Index.

"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 Ophuls), 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.

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