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The future of nostalgia /

By: Boym, Svetlana, 1959-.
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2001Description: xix, 404 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0465007074; 9780465007073; 0465007082 (pbk.); 9780465007080 (pbk.).Subject(s): Nostalgia -- Social aspects | Memory -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 909.83
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction : taboo on nostalgia? -- Part I : hypochondria of the heart : nostalgia, history and memory. From cured soldiers to incurable romantics : nostalgia and progress. The angel of history : nostalgia and modernity. The dinosaur : nostalgia and popular culture. Restorative nostalgia : conspiracies and return to origins. Reflective nostalgia : virtual reality and collective memory. Nostalgia and post-communist memory -- Part 2 : cities and re-invented traditions. Archeology of metropolis. Moscow, the Russian Rome. St. Petersburg, the cosmopolitan province. Berlin, the virtual capital. Europa's Eros -- Part 3 : exiles and imagined homelands. On diasporic intimacy. Vladimir Nabokov's false passport. Joseph Brodsky's room and a half. Ilya Kabakov's toilet. Immigrant souvenirs. Aesthetic individualism and the ethics of nostalgia -- Conclusio : nostalgia and global culture : from outer space to cyber space -- Notes -- Index.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 909.83 BOY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0092280
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction : taboo on nostalgia? -- Part I : hypochondria of the heart : nostalgia, history and memory. From cured soldiers to incurable romantics : nostalgia and progress. The angel of history : nostalgia and modernity. The dinosaur : nostalgia and popular culture. Restorative nostalgia : conspiracies and return to origins. Reflective nostalgia : virtual reality and collective memory. Nostalgia and post-communist memory -- Part 2 : cities and re-invented traditions. Archeology of metropolis. Moscow, the Russian Rome. St. Petersburg, the cosmopolitan province. Berlin, the virtual capital. Europa's Eros -- Part 3 : exiles and imagined homelands. On diasporic intimacy. Vladimir Nabokov's false passport. Joseph Brodsky's room and a half. Ilya Kabakov's toilet. Immigrant souvenirs. Aesthetic individualism and the ethics of nostalgia -- Conclusio : nostalgia and global culture : from outer space to cyber space -- Notes -- Index.

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