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The Fetish: Literature, Cinema, Visual Art

Bloomsbury Academic
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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 Oph?ls), 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.
  • | Author: Massimo Fusillo
  • | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • | Publication Date: Sep 21, 2017
  • | Number of Pages: 200 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover/LITERARY CRITICISM
  • | ISBN-10: 1501312359
  • | ISBN-13: 9781501312359
Author:
Massimo Fusillo
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date:
Sep 21, 2017
Number of pages:
200 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover/LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN-10:
1501312359
ISBN-13:
9781501312359