Research Catalog

Title

Marks of toil : work and disfigurement in literature, film and philosophy / Justin Vicari.

Author

Vicari, Justin, 1968-

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]

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Description

v, 207 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Subjects considered in this book include the films of Charlie Kaufman and Stan Brakhage, the fiction of Philip Roth and Don DeLillo, the feminist art criticism of Lucy Lippard, and the meanings of virtuality and the internet"--

Subject

• Manual work > Philosophy
• Mutilation > Philosophy
• Human capital > Philosophy
• Work in literature
• Literature and society
• Work in motion pictures
• Motion pictures > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: We Halcyonians -- Motifs of physical capital and bodily transformation -- Eternity and the body -- Fictional bodies of the Great Depression -- The dean's laughing fit -- The road to Kotka at night -- The aesthetics of limbo -- Window babies -- Surplus and sacrifice -- This animal which is not one -- Dialectics at an impasse -- (In)conclusion: on the evanescent.

ISBN

• 9780786495887 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 078649588X (softcover : alk. paper)
• 9781476617046 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014032944

OCLC

879584344

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library