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The Ends of Mourning

Psychoanalysis, Literature, Film

By: Alessia Ricciardi

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The Ends of Mourning

Psychoanalysis, Literature, Film

By: Alessia Ricciardi

The Ends of Mourning explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the contemporary crisis of mourning. In an age skeptical of history and memory, we relate to the past only as a spectacle, a product to be consumed in the cultural marketplace. The book charts the emergence and development of the problem of mourning in the writings of Freud, Proust, and Freud's successor Lacan. Freud's idea of "sorrow work" and Proust's concept of involuntary memory defined the terms of the classic modernist account of mourning in the fields of psychoanalysis and literature. Yet their insistence on the egotistical aspects of loss to the exclusion of all ethical and political considerations threatens the dissolution of the question of mourning.

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Stanford University Press

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0804747776

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The Ends of Mourning

Psychoanalysis, Literature, Film

By: Alessia Ricciardi

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After La Dolce Vita

A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy

By: Alessia Ricciardi

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After La Dolce Vita

A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy

By: Alessia Ricciardi

This book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. During that time, the nation's literary and intellectual vanguard managed to lose the prominence handed it after the end of World War II and the defeat of Fascism. What emerged instead was a uniquely Italian brand of cultural capital that deliberately avoided any critical questioning of the prevailing order. Ricciardi criticizes the development of this new hegemonic arrangement in film, literature, philosophy, and art criticism. She focuses on several turning points: Fellini's futile, late-career critique of Berlusconi-style commercial television, Calvino's late turn to reactionary belletrism, Vattimo's nihilist and conservative responses to French poststructuralism, and Bonito Oliva's movement of art commodification, Transavanguardia.

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Stanford University Press

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080478258X

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Finding Ferrante

Authorship and the Politics of World Literature

By: Alessia Ricciardi

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Finding Ferrante

Authorship and the Politics of World Literature

By: Alessia Ricciardi

Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels achieved stunning global success in part because of the mystery surrounding their pseudonymous author. English-speaking readers were tantalized by her enigmatic biography as well as what they took to be her authentic portrayal of working-class Naples. However, we now know that the person behind the writing is most likely Anita Raja, a prominent translator of German literature whose background is very different from Ferrante’s supposed life. In Finding Ferrante, Alessia Ricciardi revisits questions about Ferrante’s identity to show how the problem of authorship is deeply intertwined with the novels’ literary ambition and politics. Going beyond the local and national cultures of Naples and Italy, Ricciardi reads Ferrante’s fiction as world literature, foregrounding Raja’s work as a translator. She examines the novels’ engagement with German literature and criticism, particularly Goethe, Walter Benjamin, and Christa Wolf, while also tracing the influence of Italian thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci, Carla Lonzi, and the Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective. Considering central questions of sexuality, work, politics, and place, Ricciardi demonstrates how intertextual resonances reshape our understanding of Lila and Elena, the protagonists of the Neapolitan Quartet, as well as the characters and language of Ferrante’s other books. This bold reconsideration of one of today’s most acclaimed authors reveals Ferrante’s works as fiercely intellectual, showing their deep concern with feminist and cultural politics and the ethical and political stakes of literature.

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158

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Columbia University Press

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0231553595

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9780231553599

The Economics of Contemporary Art

Markets, Strategies and Stardom

By: Alessia Zorloni

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The Economics of Contemporary Art

Markets, Strategies and Stardom

By: Alessia Zorloni

The book examines the contemporary art system with a broad and systematic approach, through the application of models of microeconomics and industrial organizations. By breaking down the traditional barriers between different academic disciplines such as art and economics, this book offers a unique opportunity to grasp the complexities of the contemporary art world and provides the tools to conduct a structural analysis of that market. The result is an in-depth analysis of the contemporary art market from an interdisciplinary perspective. While it is not a textbook in the strictest sense, the book offers a concise and effective overview of all actors in the art system, and provides supporting data and valuable information, both conceptual and practical. It is therefore a text that can be used by students wishing to better understand the complex dynamics that govern the contemporary art market, but also by cultural managers, collectors, potential art investors or simply art lovers who need a quick reference.

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195

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642324053

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9783642324055

The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence

Identities and Change in the World of Second-Hand Dealers

By: Alessia Meneghin

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The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence

Identities and Change in the World of Second-Hand Dealers

By: Alessia Meneghin

The Arte dei rigattieri (merchants of second-hand goods in Florence) has never been the subject of a systematic study, even in scholarship devoted to the history of trades. Underpinned by a large collection of archival material, this book analyzes the social life and economic activity of rigattieri in fifteenth-century Florence. It offers invaluable information on issues such as the relationship between socio-political affiliations and economic interest as well as the structures of consumption and the spending power of different social groups. Furthermore, through the lens of the Arte dei Rigattieri, this work examines the connection between the development of the political bureaucracy, the establishment of Medicean power, and contemporaneous processes of identity construction and social mobility.

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Routledge

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1000712516

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9781000712513

After La Dolce Vita

A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy

By: Alessia Ricciardi

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A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy

By: Alessia Ricciardi

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The Ends of Mourning

The Ends of Mourning

The Ends of Mourning

The Ends of Mourning

After La Dolce Vita

After La Dolce Vita

Finding Ferrante

Finding Ferrante

The Economics of Contemporary Art

The Economics of Contemporary Art

The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence

The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence

After La Dolce Vita

After La Dolce Vita

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