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In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences, wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected ecological intimacies and entanglements.  Yet this deeply felt experience—at once cognitive, aesthetic, and ethical—has been dangerously neglected in our cultural education.  In order to cultivate the imaginative empathy and caution this feeling evokes, we need to teach ourselves and others to read for wonder.  This book begins by unfolding the nature and artifice of wonder as a human capacity and as a fabricated experience.  Ranging across poetry, foodstuffs, movies, tropical islands, wonder cabinets, apes, abstract painting, penguins and more, Reading for Wonder offers an anatomy of wonder in transmedia poetics, then explores its ethical power and political risks from early modern times to the present day.  To save ourselves and the teeming life of our planet, indeed to flourish, we must liberate wonder from ideologies of enchantment and disenchantment, understand its workings and their ethical ambivalence, and give it a clear language and voice.

Literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature --- Poetry. --- Aesthetics. --- Literary Theory. --- Comparative Literature. --- Poetry and Poetics. --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Poems --- Poetry --- Verses (Poetry) --- Philosophy. --- Theory --- History and criticism --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Psychology --- Wonder in literature. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Aesthetics

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The politicised interpretation of literature has relied on models of economic and social structures that oscillate between idealized subversion and market fatalism. Current anthropological discussions of mixed gift and commodity economies and the segmented politics of house societies offer solutions to this problem and suggest invaluable new directions for literary studies. Modernist Goods uses recent discussions of gift and house practices to counter an influential revisionist trend in modernist studies, a trend that sees the capitalist marketplace and its public sphere as the uniquely determining institutional structures in modern arts and culture.Glenn Willmott argues that a political unconscious forged by the widespread marginalisation of pre-capitalist institutions comes to the fore in modernist primitivism. Such primitivism, he insists, is not superficially exoticist or simply appropriative of the cultural heritage of others. Rather, it is at once parodic and authentic, and often, in the language of Julia Kristeva, abject. Modernist Goods examines such writers as Yeats, Conrad, Eliot, Woolf, Beckett, H.D., and Joyce to uncover what the author views as their displaced aboriginality and to investigate the relationship between literary modernism and aboriginal modernity. By bringing current anthropological developments to literary studies, it aims to rethink the economic commitments of modernist literature and their political significance.

English literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- Primitivism. --- Literature and anthropology. --- Capitalism and literature. --- Economics and literature. --- Politics and literature. --- Philosophy --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Literature --- Literature and economics --- Literature and politics --- Literature and capitalism --- Anthropology and literature --- Anthropology --- History and criticism. --- Economic aspects --- Political aspects --- Capitalisme et littérature. --- Économie politique et littérature. --- Littérature anglaise --- Modernism (Literature). --- Modernisme (Littérature). --- Politique et littérature. --- Primitivisme. --- Économie politique et littérature. --- Histoire et critique.

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Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, from environmental economics to psychology, Glenn Willmott examines modern and post-modern allegories of the environment, the animal, and economics, highlighting the enduring and seductive appeal of the modern primitive in an age when living with less remains a powerful cultural wish.

Primitivism in literature. --- Economics in literature. --- Ecology in literature. --- Scarcity. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Crepuscolarismo --- Deficiency --- Shortages --- Comic. --- Englisch. --- Literatur. --- Modernism (Literature). --- Postmodernism (Literature). --- Tiere. --- Umwelt. --- Wirtschaft.

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In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences, wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected ecological intimacies and entanglements. Yet this deeply felt experience—at once cognitive, aesthetic, and ethical—has been dangerously neglected in our cultural education. In order to cultivate the imaginative empathy and caution this feeling evokes, we need to teach ourselves and others to read for wonder. This book begins by unfolding the nature and artifice of wonder as a human capacity and as a fabricated experience. Ranging across poetry, foodstuffs, movies, tropical islands, wonder cabinets, apes, abstract painting, penguins and more, Reading for Wonder offers an anatomy of wonder in transmedia poetics, then explores its ethical power and political risks from early modern times to the present day. To save ourselves and the teeming life of our planet, indeed to flourish, we must liberate wonder from ideologies of enchantment and disenchantment, understand its workings and their ethical ambivalence, and give it a clear language and voice.

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The politicised interpretation of literature has relied on models of economic and social structures that oscillate between idealized subversion and market fatalism. Current anthropological discussions of mixed gift and commodity economies and the segmented politics of house societies offer solutions to this problem and suggest invaluable new directions for literary studies. Modernist Goods uses recent discussions of gift and house practices to counter an influential revisionist trend in modernist studies, a trend that sees the capitalist marketplace and its public sphere as the uniquely determining institutional structures in modern arts and culture.Glenn Willmott argues that a political unconscious forged by the widespread marginalisation of pre-capitalist institutions comes to the fore in modernist primitivism. Such primitivism, he insists, is not superficially exoticist or simply appropriative of the cultural heritage of others. Rather, it is at once parodic and authentic, and often, in the language of Julia Kristeva, abject. Modernist Goods examines such writers as Yeats, Conrad, Eliot, Woolf, Beckett, H.D., and Joyce to uncover what the author views as their displaced aboriginality and to investigate the relationship between literary modernism and aboriginal modernity. By bringing current anthropological developments to literary studies, it aims to rethink the economic commitments of modernist literature and their political significance.

Literature --- Capitalism and literature. --- Capitalisme et littérature. --- Economics and literature. --- English literature --- Économie politique et littérature. --- Literature and anthropology. --- Littérature anglaise --- Modernism (Literature). --- Modernisme (Littérature). --- Politics and literature. --- Politique et littérature. --- Primitivism. --- Primitivisme. --- Économie politique et littérature. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Modernism (Literature)