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    "pk": 40526,
    "title": "Carlo Emilio Gadda’s Junk and Other Vibrant Matter in Milan and Maradagàl",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This article considers the figure of the tangle (be it a \ngarbuglio\n, \ngomitolo, gnommero\n, or \nguazzabuglio\n), emblematic of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s narrative architecture and philosophy. The \ngarbugli\no and its variations, like the “vibrant matter” recently theorized by Jane Bennett, enmesh human and nonhuman matter in a fabric of relations so dense that no element can be subtracted from the global whole. Understanding uselessness not as a quality intrinsic to matter, but as a relationship of exteriority, this article examines iterations of uselessness—and accordingly, forms of subtraction—in Gadda: of human and nonhuman matter from larger tangles (whether linguistic, narrative, economic, or social). The stakes of these forms of subtraction, I argue, come into focus in \nLa cognizione del dolore\n in a tension between “ethics” and “charity” that demonstrates Gadda’s disillusionment with fascism—and particularly with fascist mothers who, like Volumnia of Shakespeare’s \nCoriolanus\n, would sacrifice their sons to the “ethical” imperatives of the state.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Carlo Emilio Gadda"
        },
        {
            "word": "Jane Bennett"
        },
        {
            "word": "Vibrant Materialism"
        },
        {
            "word": "Uselessness"
        },
        {
            "word": "Francesco Orlando"
        },
        {
            "word": "Hoarding"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Open Theme Issue",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5v9340ws",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Rebecca",
            "middle_name": "Ruth",
            "last_name": "Falkoff",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "New York University",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2014-05-13T22:34:24+08:00",
    "date_accepted": "2014-05-13T22:34:24+08:00",
    "date_published": "2015-07-30T15:00:00+08:00",
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}