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  • The Fetish

    Literature, Cinema, Visual Art

    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 ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Negative Empathy in Literature and the Arts

    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Negative Empathy in Literature and the Arts explores how readers and viewers engage cognitively and affectively with ethically troubling artworks across literature, the visual and performing arts, and screen media. Drawing on aesthetics, cultural history and theory, psychology, and neuroscience, Stefano Ercolino and Massimo Fusillo introduce the concept of “negative empathy” to describe the ... Read more

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  • The Gesamtkunstwerk as a Synergy of the Arts

    Series Book 42 - Nouvelle poétique comparatiste / New Comparative Poetics
    Conceived by Wagner as a way to recover the synthesis of arts at the core of Greek tragedy, the Gesamtkunstwerk played a significant role in post-Romantic and avant-garde aesthetics. It was designed to regenerate and defend the public function of art against mass culture and technology, yet at the same time depended on them in an ambivalent relationship manifested by its various realizations. The ... Read more

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    French Mélodie in the Belle Epoque

    Series series New Cultural History of Music
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  • Translation

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  • Novelization

    From Film to Novel

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    Form, Medium, Memory

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