Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries : A Mind's Odyssey / Joseph Natoli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Natoli, Joseph P., 1943- author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Essays.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

Summary:

A story of self, braided to a story of American culture.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One William Blake: Prophet against Empire

Introduction, Twentieth-Century Blake Criticism: Northrop Frye to the Present

The Pragmatics of Reading Blake

The Politics of Blakean Criticism

Excerpt from Mots d'Ordre: Disorder in Literary Worlds

Blake's Marriage

"The Argument": The Play of Disorder

Why Are We Not Roused to Action?

Notes

Chapter Two A Patient Appears at the Psychiatrist's Office: The Turn to Phenomenological Psychopathology

Dark Affinities: The Father

Phenomenological Psychology and Literary Interpretation

The Code of Crisis and Disaster

Chapter Three The World Is a Book

Textual Studies and the Selection of Editions

Meditating on a Postmodern Strategy of Reading

Endless Deferment: The Inequitable Melee of Events and Words

Chapter Four Looking for Disorder in Literary Worlds

Mapping the Inconceivable: Disordering Taxonomies

Note

Chapter Five Postmodernity Is a Hoot

Go to Citizen Kane to Find Twentieth-Century Modernism: On the Edge of Postmodernity

The Deep Morals of Inglourious Basterds

Chapter Six At the Theory Carnival

Preface to Tracing Literary Theory

Preface to Literary Theory's Future(s)

Chapter Seven Into the American Mass Psyche of the Nineties

Hauntings: Popular Film and American Culture

Hunting the Haunted Heart

Speeding to the Millennium: Film and Culture 1993-1995

Court and Culture: The Days of Our Life with O.J.

One Hundred Days of the O.J. Trial

Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture 1996-1998

That Rug Really Tied the Room Together

Memory's Orbit: Film and Culture 1999-2000

After September 11, 2001

Revised Ending, September 2014

Hearing the Ping of Poverty-or Not

Notes.

Chapter Eight Railing through Europe: "Is This a Postmodern World?" 1995-2010

This Is a Picture and Not the World

From "Behind the Scenes: A Preproduction Q &amp

A"

From "Outtake: Postmodern Screwball"

From "Futurescape"

From "Noirscape"

From "Sneak Preview: Magic Town: America's Heartland"

From "Documentary: The Short-Term Memory Detective"

From "Shortscape: Never Far from Melodrama"

From "Fearscape/Thrillscape/Nightscape"

From "American Cool"

Chapter Nine A Long Journey to Find an Online Political Home

Truthout's Public Intellectual Project

Political Affairs: "From each according to his ability, to each according to their work"

Why the Rich Get Richer and Other Truth Stories

Bad Subjects: Politics in Everyday Life

The Leftist Psyche

The "Free Exchange of Ideas": Our New Normal

Counterpunching

Gun Control, Illegal Aliens, Moochers, Planned Parenthood, Gay Marriages, "Big Brother" Government, and Obama

Chapter Ten Popular Culture: What I Did at the Movies

Doing the American Hustle

The Hateful Eight: History's Dark Bounty

Chapter Eleven I Roam into TV: Rebel Sons, Foodies, DBs, TV Pharmacy, and Sports

TV's Rebel Sons: The Anger of Deep Revolt

I.

II.

III.

Autopsy TV

Food TV

The Emergence of Greater-than-Human Sports . . . and Baseball

Chapter Twelve Dark Affinities

Dark Affinities: Liberal and Neoliberal

The Economics of Immiseration/The Politics of Seduction

US Higher Education: The New "Treasure Island" for Investors

I

Plutocracy, Gentrification, and Racial Violence

Chapter Thirteen Dark Imaginaries

What Climate Scenarios Do We Imagine?

A Modest Proposal, 2014

The Coming Transformation of Work to Leisure

The American Middle Class: The Political Chosen People?

Chapter Fourteen Portrait of Generation Next

To Gaga Is to Dada

The Twitter Moment

Living Backward: The Millennials' Alice

Our Millennial Age of Magic

Chapter Fifteen Occupy Wall Street

Epilogue to the Kindle Publication of Occupying Here &amp

Now: The New Class Warfare

Psychomachia: Battles within the American Cultural Psyche

Occupiers Break Through: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

Chapter Sixteen Travels of a New Gulliver

In Which the Author Introduces Himself and Then Sets Out

The Author Is Admitted to The Academy, Inhabited by Enormous-Headed Giants

Visits The Wick, the Great Augury, and The Singularity Club

Meets a Terrorist, and Then Ends Badly

The Author Comes to the End of His Travels

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438463520

1438463529

OCLC:

956435208