| Description |
xix, 163 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Theory and history of literature ; v. 69 |
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Theory and history of literature ; v. 69
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| Contents |
I. The Phantasms of Eros. 1. The Noonday Demon. 2. Melencolia I. 3. Melancholic Eros. 4. The Lost Object. 5. The Phantasms of Eros -- II. In the World of Odradek: The Work of Art Confronted with the Commodity. 6. Freud; or, The Absent Object. 7. Marx; or, The Universal Exposition. 8. Baudelaire; or, The Absolute Commodity. 9. Beau Brummell; or, The Appropriation of Unreality. 10. Mme Panckoucke; or, The Toy Fairy -- III. The Word and the Phantasm: The Theory of the Phantasm in the Love Poetry of the Duecento. 11. Narcissus and Pygmalion. 12. Eros at the Mirror. 13. Spiritus phantasticus. 14. Spirits of Love. 15. Between Narcissus and Pygmalion. 16. The "Joy That Never Ends" -- IV. The Perverse Image: Semiology from the Point of View of the Sphinx. 17. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 18. The Proper and the Improper. 19. The Barrier and the Fold |
| Summary |
"Stanzas is a fascinating blend of philology, medieval physics and psychology, the psychoanalysis of toys, and contemporary linguistics and philosophy. In this unique work, Giorgio Agamben attempts to reconfigure the epistemological foundation of Western culture. He rereads Freud and Saussure to discover the impossibility of metalanguage and of synthesis that could be reflected in the transparency of signs. There is no "superior language" that can read the obscure scenes of the unconscious, and the "symbol" is always the return of the repressed in an improper signifier".--BOOKJACKET |
| Notes |
"Originally published as Stanze : la parola e il fantasma nella cultura occidentale ... by Giulio Einaudi editore, Turin"--T.p. verso |
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Translated from Italian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the Italian |
| Subject |
Civilization, Western.
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Personality and culture.
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| Author |
Martinez, Ronald L.
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| LC no. |
92030970 |
| ISBN |
0816620377 |
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0816620385 |
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