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Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction

Hardcover • 2016 • English

Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction

By Rachele Dini

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This 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, Andre Breton, and Mina Loy, Dini traces the conceptualization of waste in th...Show more

Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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ISBN

9781137590619

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction

Format

Hardcover

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