Recantation without Conversion: Desire, Mimesis, and the Paradox of Engagement in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Petrolio
At the end of his life, Pier Paolo Pasolini famously recants. Published a week aft er his death and dated five months earlier, his "Abiura dalla Trilogia della vita " reiterates his diagnosis of a devastating cultural and anthropological transformation brought about by mass media and consu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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Mimesis, desire, and the novel
Year: 2015, Pages: 233-252 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mimesis
B Desire B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
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| Summary: | At the end of his life, Pier Paolo Pasolini famously recants. Published a week aft er his death and dated five months earlier, his "Abiura dalla Trilogia della vita " reiterates his diagnosis of a devastating cultural and anthropological transformation brought about by mass media and consumerist power, and highlights the "trauma" inflicted on private sexual lives such as his own, with the result that "what in sexual fantasies was pain and joy has become suicidal disappointment, shapeless torpor."¹ Pasolini explains that the films comprising the Trilogy of Life — The Decameron (1971), The Canterbury Tale (1972) and Arabian Nights (1974)—were |
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| ISBN: | 9781609174521 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Mimesis, desire, and the novel
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