The Future of NostalgiaBasic Books, 5. aug. 2008 - 352 sider Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors believed that opium, leeches, and a trek through the Alps would cure nostalgia. In 1733 a Russian commander, disgusted with the debilitating homesickness rampant among his troops, buried a soldier alive as a deterrent to nostalgia. In her new book, Svetlana Boym develops a comprehensive approach to this elusive ailment. Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities -- St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague-and the imagined homelands of exiles-Benjamin, Nabokov, Mandelstam, and Brodsky. From Jurassic Park to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden, from love letters on Kafka's grave to conversations with Hitler's impersonator, Boym unravels the threads of this global epidemic of longing and its antidotes. |
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... buildings in the International style embody nostalgic and antinostalgic visions . The recent reinvention of urban identity sug- gests an alternative to the opposition between local and global culture and offers a new kind of regionalism ...
... buildings in the International style embody nostalgic and antinostalgic visions . The recent reinvention of urban identity sug- gests an alternative to the opposition between local and global culture and offers a new kind of regionalism ...
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... building and native songs are purified . The official memory of the nation - state does not tolerate useless nostalgia , nostalgia for its own sake . Some Alpine melodies appeared too frivolous and ideologically incorrect . Whose ...
... building and native songs are purified . The official memory of the nation - state does not tolerate useless nostalgia , nostalgia for its own sake . Some Alpine melodies appeared too frivolous and ideologically incorrect . Whose ...
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... building conventional attractions such as a flea circus got tired of creating illusions . He intended to bring the past back to life , to make something real , that one “ could see and touch . " Jurassic Park is a nostalgic version of ...
... building conventional attractions such as a flea circus got tired of creating illusions . He intended to bring the past back to life , to make something real , that one “ could see and touch . " Jurassic Park is a nostalgic version of ...
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... Building was completed in New York City right after the stock market crash of 1929 , it was de- scribed as a " lonely dinosaur , " the belated American monument . At the turn of the nineteenth century there was a real vogue for the ...
... Building was completed in New York City right after the stock market crash of 1929 , it was de- scribed as a " lonely dinosaur , " the belated American monument . At the turn of the nineteenth century there was a real vogue for the ...
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