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What is the connection between philosophical enquiries and
storytelling in contemporary narrative? Is it possible to outline
some features of a so-called philosophical fiction in Western
literature throughout the last two centuries? This book aims to
provide a plural answer, hosting extensive essays by seven young
researchers coming from different fields (Theory of literature,
German, American, Russian and Italian contemporary literature,
history and evolution of the essayistic form). A short The volume
is addressed to all those with a strong interest in both evolution
of philosophical speech and history of the novel and has a strong
vocation to promote interdisciplinarity in literary studies.
Object fetishism is becoming a more and more pervasive phenomenon.
Focusing on literature and the visual arts, including cinema, this
book suggests a parallelism between fetishism and artistic
creativity, based on a poetics of detail, which has been
brilliantly exemplified by Flaubert's style. After exploring
canonical accounts of fetishism (Marx, Freud, Benjamin), by
combining a historicist approach with theoretical speculation,
Massimo Fusillo identifies a few interpretive patterns of object
fetishism, such as seduction (from Apollonius of Rhodes to Max
Ophuls), memory activation (from Goethe to Louise Bourgeois and
Pamuk), and the topos of the animation of the inanimate. Whereas
all these patterns are characterized by a projection of emotional
values onto objects, modernism highlights a more latent component
of object fetishism: the fascination with the alterity of matter,
variously inflected by Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Barnes, and Mann. The
last turning point in Fusillo's analysis is postmodernism and its
obsession with mass media icons-from DeLillo's maximalist frescos
and Zadie Smith's reflections on autographs to Palahniuk's porn
objects; from pop art to commodity sculpture.
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