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  • 'All-Electric' Narratives
    Rachele Dini
    Winner of the 2023 Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies'All-Electric' Narratives is the first in-depth study of time-saving electrical appliances in American literature. It examines the literary depiction of refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, oven ranges, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, toasters, blenders, standing and hand-held mixers, and microwave ove...
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    50,46 €

  • Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction
    Rachele Dini
    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 th...
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    68,57 €

  • An Analysis of Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
    Rachele Dini
    The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism’s treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider resonance: closed off from any active visual or tactile engagement, the work of art becomes an object of passive contemplation and a po...
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  • An Analysis of Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish
    Meghan Kallman / Rachele Dini
    Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century’s most innovative thinkers - and his work on Discipline and Punish was so original and offered models so useful to other scholars that the book now ranks among the most influential academic works ever published.Foucault’s aim is to trace the way in which incarceration was transformed between the seventeenth and twentieth cent...
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  • An Analysis of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
    Rachele Dini
    Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosophy. An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society, it helped define major trends in feminist thought for the rest of the 20th century, and its influence is still felt today. The book’s success owes much to Beauvoir’s brilliant writing style and passion, but bot...
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  • An Analysis of Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality
    Chiara Briganti / Rachele Dini
    Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century’s most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers. The qualities that made him one of the most-read and influential theorists of the modern age find full expression in  History of Sexuality, the last project Foucault was able to complete before his death in 1984.Central to Foucault’s appeal is the creativity of his thought. Creativ...
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  • An Analysis of Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks
    Rachele Dini
    Frantz Fanon’s explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless exposé of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. Using Fanon’s incisive analytical abilities to expose the consequences of colonialism on the psyches of colonized peoples, it is both a crucial text in post-colonial theory, and a lesson in the power of analytical skills to reveal the realit...
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    11,65 €