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Author : Emily S. Apter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Fetishism as Cultural Discourse written by Emily S. Apter and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : EMILY & PIETZ APTER (WILLIAM.)
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)
Download or read book FETISHISM & CULTURAL DISCOURSE. written by EMILY & PIETZ APTER (WILLIAM.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emily Apter
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501722697
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Feminizing the Fetish written by Emily Apter and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture. Analyzing works by authors in the naturalist and realist traditions as well as making use of documents from a contemporary medical archive, she considers fetishism as a cultural artifact and as a subgenre of realist fiction. Apter traces the web of connections among fin-de-siècle representations of perversion, the fiction of pathology, and the literary case history. She explores in particular the theme of "female fetishism" in the context of the feminine culture of mourning, collecting, and dressing.
Author : Amanda Fernbach
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Fantasies of Fetishism written by Amanda Fernbach and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the new millennium, Western culture is marked by various fantasies that imagine our future selves and their forms of embodiment. These fantasies form part of a rapidly growing discourse about the future of the human form, the disappearing boundary between the human and the technological and the cultural consequences of greater human-technological integration. This book is about those cultural fantasies of fetishism, the different forms they take and the various ways in which the transformative processes they depict can reaffirm accepted definitions of identity or reconfigure them in an entirely new fashion.
Author : Henry Krips
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501731815
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Fetish written by Henry Krips and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fetish, Henry Krips draws together Freudian and Marxian insights to provide accounts of fetishism and the gaze that afford new ways of understanding the relation of the individual to the social, of pleasure to desire. He uses discrete cultural artifacts as windows through which to view local instances of the mediation of pleasure and desire, demonstrating that users of cultural objects adapt them to suit their own strategic ends. Ranging widely over texts and cultures, he discusses Hopi initiation rites, Holbein's painting The Ambassadors, Robert Boyle's early scientific manual New Experiments Physico-Chemical, Toni Morrison's Beloved, the popular television series Mystery Science Theatre 3000, and David Cronenberg's film Crash. Jacques Lacan's theory of the gaze and Louis Althusser's theory of ideology frame Krips's perspectives on fetishism and the discourse of perversion, which he considers in light of postcolonial theory, the history of science, screen theory, and, of course, psychoanalysis. What results is a work remarkable for its clear exposition and its sophisticated synthesis of major theorists, its provocative argument that pleasure comes not from attaining desire but rather from moving around its object-cause.
Author : Hartmut Böhme
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110378000
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Fetishism and Culture written by Hartmut Böhme and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hartmut Böhme’s study of fetishism spans all the way from Christian image magic in the Middle Ages to fetishistic practices in fashion, advertising, sport and popular culture today. In it he provides a thorough exploration of religion, magic, idolatry, sexuality and consumption, charting the mental, scientific and artistic processes through which fetishism became a central category in European culture’s account of itself.
Author : William Pietz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226821811
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Problem of the Fetish written by William Pietz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Problem of the Fetish gathers William Pietz's innovative writing on the fetish object and the history of the "fetish" as a concept. Engaging extensively with historical documents, Pietz traces the genealogy of fetishism from encounters between European colonizers and African communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the emerging social sciences. Discussing the role of fetishism in anthropology, political economy, psychiatry, and law, he analyzes the relationship between the fetish and value, violence, sacrifice, and debt. To accompany Pietz's seven essays, this long-awaited volume includes a foreword by Francesco Pellizzi, editor of RES, the journal in which several of the essays originally appeared, and it also includes an introduction by Stefanos Geroulanos and Ben Kafka, who provide an invaluable guide to Pietz's thought. This book will speak to Pietz's multidisciplinary readership, continuing his legacy of engaging with questions of material culture, object agency, merchant capitalism, and spiritual power, and introducing the work of a powerful theorist to new generations of scholars and thinkers"--
Author : L. Kaplan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601200
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Cultures of Fetishism written by L. Kaplan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her latest book, Dr. Louise Kaplan, author of the groundbreaking Female Perversions , explores the fetishism strategy, a psychological defense that aims to tame, subdue, and if necessary, murder human vitalities. Through an exploration of such cultural phenomena as footbinding, reality television, and the construction of robots, Kaplan demonstrates how, in a technology-driven world, an understanding of the fetishism strategy can help to preserve the human dialogue that is the basis of all human relationships. Kaplan writes from the heart as well as from the intellect.
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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271047143
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Hold That Pose: Visual Culture in the Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish Periodical written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Kocela
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230109985
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Fetishism and Its Discontents in Post-1960 American Fiction written by C. Kocela and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century.
Author : Rosalind C. Morris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022646475X
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The Returns of Fetishism written by Rosalind C. Morris and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fetishism (supposing that it existed)": a preface to the translation of Charles de Brosses's Transgression / Rosalind C. Morris -- Introduction: fetishism, figurism, and myths of enlightenment / Daniel H. Leonard -- A note on the translation / Daniel H. Leonard -- On the worship of fetish gods; or, a parallel of the ancient religion of Egypt with the present religion of Nigritia / Charles de Brosses ; translated by Daniel H. Leonard -- After De Brosses: fetishism, translation, comparativism, critique / Rosalind C. Morris -- A fetiche is a fetiche: no knowledge without difference of the word: rereading De Brosses -- Excursus: recontextualizing De Brosses, with Pietz in and out of Africa -- Re Kant and the good fetishists among us -- Hegel: back to the heart of darkness -- Fetishism against itself; or, Marx's two fetishisms -- The great fetish; or, the fetishism of the one -- Freud and the return to the dark continent: the other fetish -- Conjuncture: Freud and Marx, via Lacan -- Anthropology's fetishism: the custodianship of reality -- Fetishism reanimated: surrealism, ethnography, and the war against decay -- Deconstruction's fetish: undecidable, or the mark of Hegel -- Rehistoricizing generalized fetishism: the era of objects -- Anthropological redux: the reality of fetishism -- The fetish is dead, long live fetishism
Author : Patricia Spyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136674160
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Border Fetishisms written by Patricia Spyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Border Fetishisms explore the cultural, commercial, political and erotic dimensions that distinguish fetish formations in fractured colonial and postcolonial spaces. Spanning such topics as Surinamese conversion to Christianity to shoplifting in Georgian England, to face the fetish, the contributors neither demagicalize the fetish nor normalize the commodity. Instead, they call for the inclusion of material things -- as fetishes or not -- within the experience of human sufferings and joy. Contributors: Robert J. Foster, Webb Keane, Susan Leg6~ne, Annelies Moors, Peter Pels, William Pietz, Adela Pinch, Patricia Spyer, Peter Stallybrass, Michael Taussig.
Author : Daniel Tiffany
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674746626
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (466 download)
Download or read book Radio Corpse written by Daniel Tiffany and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the necrophilic dimension of Pound's poetry and the inflections of materiality enabled by the modernist image, Tiffany finds a continuum between Decadent practice and the avant-garde, between the image's prehistory and its political afterlife, between the "corpse language" of Victorian poetry and a conception of the "radioactive" image
Author : Kam Louie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773530072
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Culture, Identity, Commodity written by Kam Louie and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly to Evelyn Lau's Diary of a Runaway to Fred Wah's poetry, diasporic Chinese literature in English is reaching wider audiences. The interdisciplinary essays in Culture, Identity, Commodity provide close textual readings and general theoretical frameworks from American, Australian, and Canadian perspectives for a range of textual productions - novels, autobiographies, plays, and Chinese cooking shows - that address this dynamic field. Established and emerging scholars offer timely discussions of "diasporic Chinese studies," drawing on transnational, postcolonial, globalisation, and racialisation theories. The collection examines what is at stake in the consideration of diasporic literatures and the connections and fissures emerging in these new critical terrains. Book jacket.
Author : G.F. Mitrano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351933760
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Gertrude Stein written by G.F. Mitrano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her provocative study of Gertrude Stein, G.F. Mitrano argues that Stein's particular take on modernity has special relevance for today. Tracing what she describes as Stein's deeply modernist story of transformation from a nineteenth-century American woman to the disquieting muse of avant-garde culture portrayed in Picasso's famous portrait, Mitrano illuminates Stein's immense appetite for life, her love of thinking, and her craving for recognition. Her approach is innovative, combining the exegetical, the visual, and the theoretical, to emphasize Stein's struggle for individuality and public achievement as a profoundly historical struggle involving personal choices linked, for example, to her sexuality or the uses of her physical appearance. Stein continues to attract attention, Mitrano contends, because she anticipates many contemporary concerns, especially in the field of critical thinking: from the question of subjectivity, to the status of the writer as a laborer among many, to the meaning of fame and the private/public divide.
Author : Yoon Sun Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019028997X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Nationalism and Irony written by Yoon Sun Lee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalism and irony are two of the most significant developments of the Romantic period, yet they have not been linked in depth before now. This study shows how Romantic nationalism in Britain explored irony's potential as a powerful source of civic cohesion. The period's leading conservative voices, self-consciously non-English figures such as Edmund Burke, Walter Scott, and Thomas Carlyle, accentuated rather than disguised the anomalous character of Britain's identity, structure, and history. Their irony publicly fractured while upholding sentimental fictions of national wholeness. Britain's politics of deference, its reverence for tradition, and its celebration of productivity all became not only targets of irony but occasions for its development as a patriotic institution. This study offers a different view of both Romantic irony and Romantic nationalism: irony is examined as an outgrowth of commercial society and as a force that holds together center and periphery, superiors and subordinates, in the culture of nationalism.
Author : Christopher M. Gemerchak
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058674081
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Everyday Extraordinary written by Christopher M. Gemerchak and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of fetishism has long been a window through which philosophers, psychoanalysts and cultural anthropologists have looked in order to critically examine the nature of beliefs, sexual interests and material values, and it remains today a vital interpretive paradigm. The enduring interest in fetishism gives testimony to the fact that its status and significance have yet to be fully resolved. In the attempt to further clarify this ambiguous and often mystifying phenomenon, the contributors to Everyday Extraordinary: Encountering Fetishism with Marx, Freud and Lacan have taken a fresh look at the fundamental dynamic of fetishism through the lenses of its most influential interpreters?not only Marx, Freud and Lacan, but also Derrida, Mannoni and Pietz.In this collection of essays, the philosophical approach joins forces with the psychoanalytic, and the psychoanalytic with the aesthetic and mythological, often with striking results. Emerging from the essays contained in this volume is a notion of fetishism as a response to a crisis of meaning: personal, social or religious. The fetish mediates the crisis that arises when a system of meaning and identity is confronted with something that threatens it with dissolution, whether this threat arises from an excessive and traumatic figure of alterity, or from the loss of the ground on which ones certainty had been staked. And the stakes of this confrontation are indeed high, as the fetish is here seen as an object having a profound influence on the life of desire, now leading to a symbolic blossoming of the mundane, now into perverse repetition and the refusal of change.
