Overview

This final volume in theHabits of Being series shows how the dialectic between everyday appearance andoutrageous acts is mediated through clothing and accessories. Employing manydifferent approaches, these essays explore how wearing an object can straybeyond the bounds of the body on which it is placed into the discrepant territoryof flagrantly excessive public signs of love, status, honor, prestige, power,desire, and display.

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Author:   Cristina Giorcelli ,  Paula Rabinowitz
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780816697298

ISBN 10:   0816697299
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   01 December 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
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Cristina Giorcelli is professor of American literature at the University of Rome Three, where she chairs the department of Euro-American studies. Paula Rabinowitz is professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of many books, including American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street and Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism.

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