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UNINA9910456773803321 |
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Willmott Glenn <1963-> |
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Modernist goods : primitivism, the market, and the gift / / Glenn Willmott |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008 |
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1 online resource (339 p.) |
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English literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Modernism (Literature) |
Primitivism |
Literature and anthropology |
Capitalism and literature |
Economics and literature |
Politics and literature |
Electronic books. |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beyond Primitivism -- Part 1: After Strange Goods: The Economic Unconscious of Imperialist Modernity -- Part 2: Multiplying the Public: Abject Modernism and Its Institutions -- Part 3: The Parodic Shaman: Imperialist Modernity and the Blackened Gift -- Part 4: The Impure House: Re-imagining Aboriginal Modernity -- Conclusion: Modernism and Utopia -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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The politicised interpretation of literature has relied on models of economic and social structures that oscillate between idealized subversion and market fatalism. Current anthropological discussions of mixed gift and commodity economies and the segmented politics of house societies offer solutions to this problem and suggest invaluable new directions for literary studies. Modernist Goods uses recent discussions of gift and house practices to counter an influential |
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revisionist trend in modernist studies, a trend that sees the capitalist marketplace and its public sphere as the uniquely determining institutional structures in modern arts and culture.Glenn Willmott argues that a political unconscious forged by the widespread marginalisation of pre-capitalist institutions comes to the fore in modernist primitivism. Such primitivism, he insists, is not superficially exoticist or simply appropriative of the cultural heritage of others. Rather, it is at once parodic and authentic, and often, in the language of Julia Kristeva, abject. Modernist Goods examines such writers as Yeats, Conrad, Eliot, Woolf, Beckett, H.D., and Joyce to uncover what the author views as their displaced aboriginality and to investigate the relationship between literary modernism and aboriginal modernity. By bringing current anthropological developments to literary studies, it aims to rethink the economic commitments of modernist literature and their political significance. |
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UNINA9910674005203321 |
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Autore |
Balzeau Antoine |
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Symmetry in Human Evolution, from Biology to Behaviours / / Antoine Balzeau |
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Basel : , : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, , 2022 |
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1 online resource (172 pages) |
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Human evolution |
Human evolution - Social aspects |
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Our knowledge of human evolution has made particular progress recently, due to the discovery of new fossils, the use of new methods and multidisciplinary approaches. Moreover, studies on the departure from symmetry, including variations in fluctuating or directional asymmetries, have contributed to the expansion of this knowledge. |
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This Special Issue brings together articles that deal with symmetry and human evolution. The notion of symmetry is addressed, including whether to reconstruct deformed fossil specimens, study biological variations within hominins or compare them with extant primates, address the shape of the brain or seek possible relationships between biological and behavioural data. |
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