Objects in Italian Life and Culture: Fiction, Migration, and Artificiality

by Paolo Bartoloni

Book Overview

This book makes visible the hidden relations between things and individuals through a discussion of creative processes and cultural practices. Italian life and culture are filled with objects that cross, accompany, facilitate or disrupt experience, desires, and dreams. Yet in spite of their ubiquity, theoretical engagement in the Italian context is still underdeveloped. Paolo Bartoloni investigates four typologies-the fictional, migrant, multicultural/transnational,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349956635
• ISBN13: 9781349956630
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"