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17 produkter
How to Be Weird
An Off-Kilter Guide to Living a One-of-a-Kind Life
Häftad, 2022
183 kr
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A guidebook for beating the monotony of the everyday by purposefully cultivating the surprising joys that come from living an off-kilter life It's all too easy to get caught up in the often monotonous nature of our day to day--moving from one rote task to the next, only to rinse and repeat the next …
I Contain Multitudes
A New Life of Walt Whitman
Inbunden, 2027
326 kr
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Lively and entertaining, this is the first comprehensive biography of Walt Whitman in more than twenty-five years, drawing on significant new discoveries and scholarship.Walt Whitman is not only one of the most influential and popular poets in American history but also a symbol of American …
Dream-Child
A Life of Charles Lamb
Inbunden, 2022
322 kr
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An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work “[An] electrifying portrait of Charles Lamb.”—New Yorker A pioneer of urban Romanticism, essayist Charles Lamb (1775–1834) found inspiration in London’s markets, theaters, prostitutes, and bookshops. He …
Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck
Why We Can't Look Away
Häftad, 2013
214 kr
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Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: as conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. But we're still compelled to look whenever we pass a grisly accident on the …
Keep It Fake
Av Eric G. Wilson, Eric Wilson
Häftad, 2016
277 kr
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In Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life, Eric G. Wilson investigates this phenomenon. He draws on neuroscience, psychology, sociology, philosophy, art, film, literature, and his own life to explore the possibility that there's no such thing as unwavering reality. Whether our left brains are …
Melancholy Android
On the Psychology of Sacred Machines
Häftad, 2006
357 kr
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Explores the cultural significance of androids.The Melancholy Android is a psychological study of the impulses behind the creation of androids. Exploring three imaginative figures-the mummy, the golem, and the automaton-and their appearances in myth, religion, literature, and film, Eric G. Wilson …
How to Make a Soul
The Wisdom of John Keats
Inbunden, 2015
1563 kr
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In this innovative hybrid of biography, memoir, and criticism, Eric G. Wilson describes how John Keats gave him solace during a bout of mental illness in spring 2012. While on a tour of the principal sites in Keats’s life—ranging from his London medical school to the small room in Rome where he …
Secret Cinema
Gnostic Vision in Film
Inbunden, 2006
2120 kr
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In the last twenty years or so, numerous mainstream movies have drawn from the ideas and images of ancient thought to address the collapse of appearance and reality. These films have consistently featured the Gnostic currents that emerged from Plato: not only Gnosticism itself but also Cabbala and …
Secret Cinema
Gnostic Vision in Film
Häftad, 2006
429 kr
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In the last twenty years or so, numerous mainstream movies have drawn from the ideas and images of ancient thought to address the collapse of appearance and reality. These films have consistently featured the Gnostic currents that emerged from Plato: not only Gnosticism itself but also Cabbala and …
Strange World of David Lynch
Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Dr.
Häftad, 2007
486 kr
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Anyone who has watched "Twin Peaks" or sat through the dark and grainy world of "Eraserhead" knows that David Lynch's films pull us into a strange world where reality turns upside down and sideways. His films are carnivals that allow us to transcend our ordinary lives and to reverse the meanings we …
Point Blank
E-bok, 2023
215 kr
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John Boorman''s Point Blank (1967) has long been recognised as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its lasting influence can be traced throughout the decades in films like Mean Streets (1973), Reservoir …
Point Blank
E-bok, 2023
215 kr
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John Boorman''s Point Blank (1967) has long been recognised as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its lasting influence can be traced throughout the decades in films like Mean Streets (1973), Reservoir …
Point Blank
Häftad, 2023
200 kr
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John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) has long been recognised as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its lasting influence can be traced throughout the decades in films like Mean Streets (1973), Reservoir Dogs …
Melancholy Android
On the Psychology of Sacred Machines
Inbunden, 2006
1087 kr
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Explores the cultural significance of androids.The Melancholy Android is a psychological study of the impulses behind the creation of androids. Exploring three imaginative figures-the mummy, the golem, and the automaton-and their appearances in myth, religion, literature, and film, Eric G. Wilson …
How to Make a Soul
The Wisdom of John Keats
Häftad, 2015
345 kr
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In this innovative hybrid of biography, memoir, and criticism, Eric G. Wilson describes how John Keats gave him solace during a bout of mental illness in spring 2012. While on a tour of the principal sites in Keats’s life—ranging from his London medical school to the small room in Rome where he …
