Marks of toil : work and disfigurement in literature, film and philosophy /

"Subjects considered in this book include the films of Charlie Kaufman and Stan Brakhage, the fiction of Philip Roth and Don DeLillo, the feminist art criticism of Lucy Lippard, and the meanings of virtuality and the internet"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vicari, Justin, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Temas:
Manual work > Philosophy.
Mutilation > Philosophy.
Human capital > Philosophy.
Work in literature.
Literature and society.
Work in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Travail manuel > Philosophie.
Mutilation > Philosophie.
Travail dans la littérature.
Littérature et société.
Travail au cinéma.
Cinéma > Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: We Halcyonians
  • Motifs of physical capital and bodily transformation
  • Eternity and the body
  • Fictional bodies of the Great Depression
  • The dean's laughing fit
  • The road to Kotka at night
  • The aesthetics of limbo
  • Window babies
  • Surplus and sacrifice
  • This animal which is not one
  • Dialectics at an impasse
  • (In)conclusion: on the evanescent.

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