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1 online resource (xxvi, 307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

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Habits of being ; 4

Habits of being ; 4.

JSTOR DDA.

Note

Includes some articles translated from Italian.

Summary

"This four-volume English-language series extracts more than forty of the best essays included in the ongoing editions Abito e Identità: Ricerche di storia letteraria e culturale, edited by Cristina Giorcelli and published since 1995 by Edizioni Associate (volumes 1/3) and Ila Palma Press (volumes 4/12) of Rome, Italy. Habits of Being augments these Italian-published essays with newly commissioned ones and with examples of work by contemporary artists who explore the interface between text and textile. The result of almost two decades of research by international teams of scholars from Algeria, France, Hungary, Italy, and the United States, the series focuses on the multiple forms and meanings attached to various articles of clothing in literature, film, performance, art, and other cultural arenas as well as on the social, economic, and semiotic connotations of clothing. Bringing together the work of literary and film critics, art and fashion historians, semioticians, sociologists, historians, and ethnographers, as well as psychoanalysts, artists, and fashion designers, these books offer an English-speaking audience a rare glimpse of the important studies being published in Italy, that most modish of nations." Provided by publisher.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Includes some articles translated from Italian and taken from Abito e identità.

Note

Print version record.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. When Women Speak ... Their Clothes Talk / Mariapia Bobbioni -- 2. Accessory Is a Gesture IN CONVERSATION WITH CRISTINA GIORCELLI / Guillermo Mariotto -- 3. Wearing a Crown / Paola Colaiacomo -- 4. Earrings in American Literature A Showcase / Cristina Giorcelli -- 5. Buttons, Buttons, and More Buttons! / Margherita Di Fazio -- 6. Curse of the Corsage Femmes Fatales And The Can-Do Girl / Charlotte Nekola -- 7. Schiaparelli's Convulsive Gloves / Victoria R. Pass -- 8. Frock and Bracelet in Omeros / Maria Anita Stefanelli -- 9. Kahlo and O'Keeffe Portrait Of The Artist As Fashion Icon / Paula Rabinowitz -- 10. Strays / Tarrah Krajnak -- 11. Erotic Play of the Veil Tapadas In Lima / Camilla Cattarulla -- 12. Clad in the Bloody Livery Fashion And Color During Argentina's Civil War / Amanda Salvioni -- 13. To Fashion the Wonderful Garment W.E.B. Du Bois's The Quest Of The Silver Fleece And Nella Larsen's Quicksand / M. Giulia Fabi -- 14. Subtle and Spectacular Dressing In Kalabari Style / Joanne B. Eicher -- 15. Shmata Mash-up A Jewette For Two Voices / Adeena Karasick.

Local Note

JSTOR

Subject

Clothing and dress -- Social aspects.

Fashion -- Social aspects.

Clothing and dress -- History.

Dress accessories -- History.

Fashion -- History.

Clothing and dress in literature.

Fashion in literature.

Wealth in literature.

Vêtements -- Accessoires -- Histoire.

Richesse dans la littérature.

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- General.

DESIGN -- Essays.

Fashion -- Social aspects

Clothing and dress -- Social aspects

Clothing and dress

Clothing and dress in literature

Dress accessories

Fashion

Fashion in literature

Wealth in literature

Genre/Form

History

Added Author

Giorcelli, Cristina, editor.

Rabinowitz, Paula, editor.

Added Title

Abito e identità.

Other Form:

Print version: Extravagances 9780816697281 (DLC) 2015016661 (OCoLC)908698905

ISBN

9781452944784 (electronic bk.)

1452944784 (electronic bk.)

9781452944791

1452944792

9780816697281

0816697280

9780816697298

0816697299