Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana 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...
Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana 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, Mandelstahm, and Brodsky. From Jurassic Park to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden, Boym unravels the threads of this global epidemic of longing and its antidotes.
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Svetlana Boym was a writer and Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard. She is the author of Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia and Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet, as well as of short stories, plays, and a novel.
Nostalgia (from nostos -- return home, and algia -- longing) is a longing for a home that no longer exists or has ever existed. Nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement, but it is also a romance with one's own fantasy. Nostalgic love can only survive in a long-distance relationship. A cinematic image of nostalgia is a double exposure, or a superimposition of two images -- of home and abroad, past and present, dream and everyday life.
In the seventeenth century, nostalgia was considered to be a curable disease, akin to the common cold ... By the twenty-first century, the passing ailment turned into the incurable modern condition.
The ambivalent sentiment permeates twentieth-century popular culture, where technological advances and special effects are frequently used to recreate vis... (查看原文)
Restorative nostalgia: truth and tradition, and is situated at the heart of national and religious revivals
reflective nostalgia: feelings of yearning and loss, statically dreaming about another plac...Restorative nostalgia: truth and tradition, and is situated at the heart of national and religious revivals
reflective nostalgia: feelings of yearning and loss, statically dreaming about another place and time.
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1 有用 周方怡 2022-01-01 03:48:45
Restorative nostalgia: truth and tradition, and is situated at the heart of national and religious revivals reflective nostalgia: feelings of yearning and loss, statically dreaming about another plac... Restorative nostalgia: truth and tradition, and is situated at the heart of national and religious revivals reflective nostalgia: feelings of yearning and loss, statically dreaming about another place and time. (展开)
1 有用 空空 2019-07-22 04:59:10
好久没读过这么感性的文章了，眼睛都湿了
0 有用 No Name🇵🇸✊ 2023-04-26 11:42:23 新加坡
开头还行，但作者基本不太相信nostalgia的激进潜能，对本雅明的引用是个例外，但又说人家太optimistic...
0 有用 karaShiba 2023-04-03 07:16:50 美国
雅
0 有用 蟫尾 2023-02-05 09:53:33 英国
探讨newness and nostalgia之力作，只可惜作者写作风格不够学术。