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Consumerism, Waste, and Re-use in Twentieth-Century Fiction:Legacies of the Avant-Garde
No full textThis book examines manufactured waste and remaindered humans in literary critiques of capitalism by twentieth-century writers associated with the historical avant-garde and their descendants. Building on recent work in new materialism and waste studies, Rachele Dini reads waste as a process or phase amenable to interruption. From an initial exploration of waste and re-use in three Surrealist texts by Giorgio de Chirico, André Breton, and Mina Loy, Dini traces the conceptualization of waste in the writing of Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme, J.G. Ballard, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo. In exploring the relationship between waste, capitalism, and literary experimentation, this book shows that the legacy of the historical avant-garde is bound up with an enduring faith in the radical potential of waste. The first study to focus specifically on waste in the twentieth-century imagination, this is a valuable contribution to the expanding field of waste studies
Bill Brown, Other Things
Get PDFBill Brown, Other Things Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2015. Pp. 396. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07665-2. ISBN-10: 0-226-07665-2 Rachele Dini Few scholars would dispute the importance of what Steve Connor termed, in 2007, the “thingly turn” in literary studies—the pronounced shift, since the late 1990s, in the focus of literary criticism from language and form to the “stuff” that language and form describes. Borrowing from material culture studies—most notably, Arjun Appadurai and Igor Kopytoff..
Giorgio Mariani, Waging War on War: Peacefighting in American Literature
Get PDFGiorgio Mariani, Waging War on War: Peacefighting in American Literature Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2015. Pp. 296. ISBN-13: 9780252097850. Rachele Dini University College London; Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge; Foundation for International Education “Whenever we talk about war literature, we are always, however implicitly, also talking about the question of how war literature is either resisted, accepted, or both. Posed in one form or another, the anti-war questio..
“All-Electric” Narratives: Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945–2020 by Rachele Dini (A Book Review)
Get PDFFilomena Mitrano\u27s review of Rachele Dini\u27s book “All-Electric” Narratives: Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945–2020, Bloomsbury, 2022
“All-Electric” Narratives: Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945–2020 by Rachele Dini (A Book Review)
Get PDFFilomena Mitrano's review of Rachele Dini's book “All-Electric” Narratives: Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945–2020, Bloomsbury, 2022
The Writing of “Dreck”: Consumerism, Waste and Re-use in Donald Barthelme’s Snow White
Get PDFThis paper examines the relationship between material waste, late capitalism, and the language and structure of Donald Barthelme’s fiction, with particular attention to Snow White (1967). Going against established modes of allegorizing the theme of waste in Barthelme’s work, I suggest the fruitfulness of a literal reading, and propose that his waste objects are framed as inevitable outcomes of a successful advertising campaign. They are the physical evidence or counterpart to the lexicons of marketing and advertising that so preoccupied the author. Such a reading is particularly apt given that Barthelme’s early fiction coincided with the birth of the environmental movement, and builds on recent scholarship in the fields of New Materialism and waste studies. By examining Barthelme’s depictions of waste through the dual lens of New Materialism and waste studies, and in relation to the work of his contemporaries as well as the literary experimentations of earlier avant-gardists, the paper establishes the different ways in which Barthelme articulates value.Rachele Dini, « The Writing of “Dreck”: Consumerism, Waste and Re-use in Donald Barthelme’s Snow White », European journal of American studies [Online], 11-2 | 2016, document 8, Online since 11 August 2016, connection on 06 September 2017. URL : http://ejas.revues.org/11588 ; DOI : 10.4000/ejas.1158
“At Home Too Everything is Falling Apart”: Waste, Domestic Disorder, and Gender in Alison Lurie’s Early Ffiction
Get PDFThis paper seeks examines the gendered aspects of consumer waste, dirt, and domestic mess in three early novels by Alison Lurie—Love and Friendship (1962), The Nowhere City (1965), and The War Between the Tates (1974), set in 1969—which I argue provide an incisive account of the transformation of gender relations over the course of the 1950s and 1960s. By focusing on the signifying potential of material objects in these texts, I seek to demonstrate Lurie’s relevance to the “thingly turn” in literary criticism, to re-ignite interest in an author whose work has received surprisingly little scholarly attention, and to generate interest in the waste matter across the rest of her oeuvre, where it in fact proliferates. In broader terms, I hope to complicate existing scholarship on waste in literature (including my own), which remains almost exclusively focused on male authors.© Cambridge University Press and British Association for American Studies 2017. This is an author produced version of a paper published in the Journal of American Studies, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link below. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it
The Writing of “Dreck”: Consumerism, Waste and Re-use in Donald Barthelme’s Snow White
Get PDFThis paper examines the relationship between material waste, late capitalism, and the language and structure of Donald Barthelme’s fiction, with particular attention to Snow White (1967). Going against established modes of allegorizing the theme of waste in Barthelme’s work, I suggest the fruitfulness of a literal reading, and propose that his waste objects are framed as inevitable outcomes of a successful advertising campaign. They are the physical evidence or counterpart to the lexicons of marketing and advertising that so preoccupied the author. Such a reading is particularly apt given that Barthelme’s early fiction coincided with the birth of the environmental movement, and builds on recent scholarship in the fields of New Materialism and waste studies. By examining Barthelme’s depictions of waste through the dual lens of New Materialism and waste studies, and in relation to the work of his contemporaries as well as the literary experimentations of earlier avant-gardists, the paper establishes the different ways in which Barthelme articulates value
Le cantigas di Roi Martinz d\u27Ulveira: edizione critica con commento
Get PDFIl saggio propone l’edizione critica delle quattro cantigas, una de amor e tre de amigo, di Roi Martinz d’Ulveira, trovatore portoghese attivo presumibilmente nell’ultimo quarto del XIII secolo. L’edizione è corredata da un’agile introduzione sull’autore e sulla tradizione manoscritta del suo ridotto canzoniere, dalla traduzione dei componimenti e da un puntuale commento, suddiviso in scheda metrica, cappello introduttivo e note esplicative ai versiThe essay proposes the critical edition of four cantigas, one de amor and three de amigo, by Roi Martinz d’Ulveira, a Portuguese troubadour presumably active in the last quarter of the 13th century. The edition is accompanied by an introduction on the author and the manuscript tradition of his work, the translation of the poems and a detailed commentary, divided into metrical analysis, an introductory presentation and explanatory notes to the verses
La tutela del passeggero nella disciplina Euro-unitaria e nella giurisprudenza della Corte di Giustizia
No full textStarting from the four EU regulations governing the rights of passengers in the various modes of transport in the event of cancellation, long delay and denied boarding, the Author asks whether the numerous rulings of the Court of Justice, which have made it possible to resolve numerous interpretative problems raised by various provisions of the oldest regulation – i.e. EC Regulation No 261/2004 on air transport – have or have not influenced the legislator in the drafting of subsequent regulations. Furthermore, the Author, considering the future prospects of EU regulation on passenger rights also in the light of the EU Commission’s recent proposal to amend the four regulations, wonders whether the time is ripe for uniform regulation in the different modes of transport
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