{"title":"Etiology of a First Book: A Defense of Comparative Italian Studies","authors":"R. Falkoff","doi":"10.1080/01614622.2023.2171569","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"My book, Possessed , which came out with Cornell University Press in 2021, is a cultural history of hoarding that tropes its theme with an accretive logic, defying and disordering disciplinary boundaries. An illustrative — if dubious — example: Possessed is currently ranked in such disparate Amazon categories as Modern Literary History, Culture and Cultural Studies, Social Psychology, Compulsive Behaviors, Salute e benessere in lingua straniera","PeriodicalId":41506,"journal":{"name":"Italian Culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"1 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Italian Culture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2023.2171569","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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My book, Possessed , which came out with Cornell University Press in 2021, is a cultural history of hoarding that tropes its theme with an accretive logic, defying and disordering disciplinary boundaries. An illustrative — if dubious — example: Possessed is currently ranked in such disparate Amazon categories as Modern Literary History, Culture and Cultural Studies, Social Psychology, Compulsive Behaviors, Salute e benessere in lingua straniera